 | When WebSphere Developer for zSeries is used with the IBM Software Development Platform, developers can extend its processing to meet a broad range of requirements and change management, and test functions directly from WebSphere Developer for zSeries. Key capabilities of WebSphere Developer for zSeries enable you to: - Integrate your existing z/OS® business applications with interoperable Web services and service oriented architectures (SOA).
- Utilize easy-to-use wizards and tools to bring many aspects of Web development (HTML, JSP, JSF, and servlets) into a common interface. This enable developers with diverse technical backgrounds, and even those unfamiliar with Java, to build rich, data driven applications.
- Visually map and construct Web applications using Model-View-Controller design with Java Server Faces and Struts
- Quickly build rich Web user interfaces and Web forms with reusable drag-and-drop Java Server Faces (JSF) components, and generate code for event handling, user input validations, and data binding
- Easily build rich-function Web pages in a visual or source editing mode using the advanced-function HTML and JSP editor
- Code in a fourth-generation language (4GL) and generate to COBOL, Java, or both. Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) is a fourth-generation language that enables procedural developers to rapidly deliver Web, services based, mixed workload, and "green screen" applications and business logic using familiar programming constructs - without coding in Java. EGL is tightly integrated with Java Server Faces so you can build highly interactive Web applications using JSF components.
- Connect your Web applications to relational databases, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, and Web services using simple point-and-click tools that support Service Data Objects, an emerging industry standard for accessing heterogeneous data.
- Improve the productivity of your COBOL and PL/I developers with development and maintenance tools for z/OS applications (COBOL, PL/I), as well as access to z/OS file systems, submitting z/OS jobs, monitoring z/OS Job execution queues, and debugging z/OS artifacts after access.
- Accelerate portal, SOA, and J2EE using RAD tools and wizards.
- Leverage existing skills and shorten the Java learning curve with drag-and-drop UI components and point-and-click database connectivity.
- Improve code quality with automated tools for applying J2EE coding standard reviews, component and Web Service unit testing, and multitier runtime analysis.
- Visualize and graphically edit code through the UML Visual Editor for Java and EJB.
- Collaborate and share assets across the team using built-in IBM Rational® ClearCase® LT version control.
- Adapt and extend your development environment with Eclipse-based plug-ins to match your needs.
- Quickly build and deploy interactive reports using drag-and-drop UI components and Crystal Reports.
- Speed coding by using the visual configurable editor and statement assisted creation, and verify syntax of COBOL, PL/I, EGL, and Java languages.
- Provide open access by developing, testing, and deploying Web Services to WebSphere, CICS, and IMS environments.
Service Flow Modeler Service Flow Modeler enables business service integration for CICS applications. It provides graphical modeling workspaces that enable enterprise solution architects, integration developers, and CICS application specialists, who need to implement SOA, to create business services that may be invoked as Web Services, by composing a sequence of CICS application interactions. A generator is provided that transforms the composed flow of CICS application interactions to form a CICS business service executable that may be deployed to CICS Transaction Server V3.1. Service Flow Modeler is a multifunctional tool supporting modern application architectures and the transformation and reuse of existing application processes. It is designed to help leverage your investment, and the quality of service (QOS), of existing Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) and the CICS Runtime and Host Access Transformation Services. At the same time, it enables the move towards SOA. You can use Service Flow Modeler to: - Model a newly composed business service - or flow - using processes or services and their interfaces
- Capture existing EIS (screen or communication area) interfaces or generate a new SOA suitable interface
- Generate adapters to and from interfaces supporting both the accumulation of information used in request and response processing as well as data transformation activities between the flow and the interface
- Expose business flows as a service or Web service
CICS Service Flow Feature The CICS Service Flow Feature is an optional feature of CICS Transaction Server V3. The CICS Service Flow Feature delivers the Service Flow Runtime component that is required by the Service Flow Modeler to compose CICS applications. Customers wishing to compose CICS interfaces using the Service Flow Modeler must request the CICS Service Flow Feature of CICS Transaction Server V3. The Service Flow runtime capability provides runtime components that extend CICS Transaction Server by providing adapters that exploit CICS interfaces to invoke the CICS terminal oriented transactions and COMMAREA programs required by the service flow. The CICS Service Flow runtime adapters provide for access to existing CICS transaction and application interfaces using non-invasive techniques so that the CICS application assets, orchestrated by the service flow, do not have to be altered to support the CICS business service flow. This enables the fast reuse of existing assets while minimizing the risk of the new implementation. If required, the CICS business service can persist state data related to the business service between multiple invocations of the CICS application interfaces. Where there is a requirement to integrate information from non-CICS applications into the CICS business service, the CICS Service Flow runtime provides a WebSphere MQ adapter that enables the CICS business service flow to access any MQ-enabled application wherever it may reside in the enterprise solution architecture. New in V6.0.1 A host of significant new features and feature enhancements in V6.0.1 build on an already comprehensive set of features. They include: - Local syntax check upgrades supporting Remote z/OS artifacts.
- Also including dependency identification of copybooks
- Visual BMS Map and EGL Form WYSIWYG Editor enhancements. The BMS Editor has been upgraded to include JCL generation supporting map assembly and build processing.
- Large PDS performance improvements to Remote System Explorer.
- Configurable Job Submission enhancements via Menu Manager.
- Configurable customizable parameter substitution on artifacts
- Upgraded XML and Web Services support, enabling SOA access to CICS Transaction Server V3.1 and IMS V9.
- Support for integrated WSDL generation from the Service Flow Modeler
- Support for Top Down COBOL copybook and XML conversion module generation
- Support for generation of services (logic and WSDL) as well as consumption of Web services using EGL
- Simplified ISPF function access through Host Access Transformation Services V6 supporting developer access through Host Access automated Web interfaces
- Common Access Repository Manager (CARMA) enabled integrated remote artifact access to user customizable Source Code Management systems.
- CARMA client development provides connection to configured repositories
- Host Access Transformation Services V6 developer technology supports rapid integration to screen driven interfaces.
- New functions in EGL include:
- Support for accessing IMS data, and deploying EGL programs in IMS TM runtimes
- Support for the migration of Web transactions from VisualAge® Generator
- IDE upgrades supporting enhanced EGL development
- Addition of the EGL Service part type that allows EGL developers to create and access different kinds of Web services
- Exploitation of CICS threadsafe execution (via a PTFto Enterprise Developer Server for z/OS V5.0)
- Other J2EE capabilities include Eclipse V3.1 support for a more responsive, attractive, and customizable user interface that increases developer productivity.
- zSeries Application Pattern Generator Technology Preview
The technology preview of composite application patterns supporting JSF and EGL-based Web Interfaces, and session and state management integrated with Create, Read, Update, Delete, and Browse processing are delivered through COBOL generated CICS processing. Technology previews provide insight into IBM plans and directions and information is provided "as-is" and without warranty or condition of any kind. Customers who want to participate in the technology preview to gain early experience with this support should visit the WebSphere Developer for zSeries Web site at http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/devzseries/support/
This Web site provides you with detailed information about availability dates and terms and conditions. - Windows-based Asset Analyzer Technology Preview
This is a technology preview of integrated application understanding via a Windows-based Asset Analyzer component. This component is for workstation and single user usage only.
Technology previews provide insight into IBM plans and directions and information is provided "as-is" and without warranty or condition of any kind. Customers who want to participate in the technology preview to gain early experience with this support should visit the WebSphere Developer for zSeries Web site at http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/devzseries/support/
This Web site provides you with detailed information about availability dates and terms and conditions.
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