Mainframe application development and deployment

Solutions

• Application modernization
• Application lifecycle management
• Compilers and middleware
• Multiplatform development
• Portfolio strategy and management

Products

• Enterprise COBOL for z/OS
• Enterprise PL/I for z/OS
• Rational Asset Analyzer for System z
• Rational Automation Framework

• Rational Developer for System z Family
• Rational Development and Test Environment for System z
• Rational Focal Point
• Rational Host Access Transformation Services
• Rational Host on Demand
• Rational Performance Tester for z/OS
• Rational Programming Patterns for System z
• Rational Team Concert
• Rational Test Workbench
• z/OS XL C/C++

Featured resources

• Analyst reports
  • Measuring The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Rational Integrated Solution for Application Portfolio Management (January 2012 – PDF, 204KB)
• Client success stories
  • INTER group boosts productivity in application development
  • SIBRA GmbH cuts developer effort by at least 50%
  • The IBM CICS development team simplifies software builds
• Events
  • Mainframe Compiler Experts Panel: Strategies and Best Practices for Successful compiler Upgrades (This link resides outside of ibm.com)
  • Ten Things You'll Want to Know About Rational Development Tools - Before You Start That Project
  • Continuous Integration and Test Virtualization in a Mainframe World
• Videos
  • IBM Enterprise Modernization Solution: The Business Challenge
  • Manage Your Application Porfolio - Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z
  • Portable Mainframe Development — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z
  • Increase Application Performance — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z
  • Building next generation enterprise IT skills (YouTube, 00:03:23)
• White papers
  • IBM enterprise modernization—The cornerstone of smarter computing (October 2011 - PDF, 886KB)
  • Enterprise modernization: A Rational approach (July 2011 - PDF, 305K)
  • From Silos to Agility (June 2011)
  • Enterprise Modernization Using Rational Developer for IBM System z (June 2011 - PDF, 250K)
• More resources
  • Hosted trials: Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z
  • Distance learning: IBM COBOL and Rational Developer for System z

Connect with the community

• IBM System z software community page
• System z on Twitter
• IBM Software News on Twitter
• System z Mainframe on Facebook
• System z Advocates on LinkedIn
• zNextGen on LinkedIn
• IBM Rational café communities for System z developers

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DevOps is about accelerated, continuous delivery of software for mobile and cloud solutions across platforms. Hayden Lindsey, IBM Rational Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, discusses how DevOps is a good fit for the mainframe.

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