IBM Rational® enterprise modernization solutions for IBM System z® can help you:
Increase flexibility by revitalizing existing application portfolios
Boost productivity and accelerate innovation with modern skills
Maximize business agility by bridging organizational silos
Defer capital expense by optimizing application infrastructures
Reducing your total cost of ownership starts with identifying where you most need to focus. Whether you want to modernize applications, enable new skills, consolidate team infrastructure, or accelerate delivery of new workloads on System z, IBM has services, software, hardware, and financing to help. Review the core needs below to understand your next steps.
| Needs | IBM can help |
|---|---|
| I need to make mainframe development affordable, simple, and accessible to all my developers | The System z Solution Edition for Application Development is intended to dramatically change the pricing for the development environment on System z. This solution is delivered with a System z10 BC processor with enough capacity to satisfy a group of individual developers; zVM to enable each developer to have a mainframe image accessible from their desktop; and z/OS and all the middleware and compiler capabilities to successfully build and function test an application that is in development. Learn more about System z Solution Edition for Application Development and Rational Developer for System z. |
| I need to reduce my annual IT budget. | If you need to recover lost knowledge of your enterprise applications and to enable your IT staff to discover, analyze, and transform your application portfolio to achieve better alignment with your business goals, then learn more about our application portfolio management offerings. Learn more about Rational Asset Analyzer, Rational System Architect®, Rational Asset Manager, and Rational enterprise architecture management. |
| I need to extend my green-screen applications to new customers and markets without changing underlying application code. | If you need to Web- or service-enable your 3270 green screen applications and to access them from rich user interfaces, Web browsers, portals, mobile devices, or Web services clients, then learn more about our user interface modernization offerings. Learn more about Rational Host Access Transformation Services, Rational Host Access Client Package, and Rational Host Integration Solution. |
| I need to integrate my mainframe applications to improve business process visibility, to reduce integration costs, and to simplify architectural complexity. | If you need to integrate your existing COBOL or PL/I business logic in new SOA and Web 2.0 applications, you need to leverage a modern, Eclipse-based development environment. Modern IDEs enhance developer productivity and are more attractive to new developers who want to build and deploy new multiplatform applications for IBM System z. Learn more about Rational Developer for System z, z/OS Problem Determination Tools |
| I need to increase system capacity and performance without hardware upgrades. | If you need to reduce the cost of COBOL and PL/I XML parsing by offloading to a zAAP specialty engine and to maximize application performance on new z10 servers without code changes, then upgrade to our newer versions of Enterprise COBOL compilers, Enterprise PL/I compilers, and C/C++ Compilers. |
| I need to improve developer productivity and to leverage my programming resources across all platforms. | Start with our Eclipse-based IDEs for multiplatform development. Modern IDEs enable developers of almost any background to create applications and services for traditional mainframe or distributed platforms without requiring them to learn the technical intricacies of the targeted platforms. Learn more about Rational Developer for System z with EGL, Rational Developer for System z with Java™, and Rational Business Developer. |
| I need an alternative to Natural/ADABAS and a flexible platform for core business applications moving forward. | IBM Rational Migration Extension for Natural enables business-critical Natural/ADABAS applications that have been transformed into the IBM Rational software development platform, specifically IBM Rational Business Developer, featuring Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) technology, to execute and generate correctly to the chosen COBOL or Java runtime environment. Learn more about Rational Business Developer. |
| I need to move away from multiple and overlapping change management solutions and to consolidate my team infrastructure. | If you need to manage enterprise-wide assets and change with a common shared repository, to automate and orchestrate defect tracking and configuration management, and to automate cross-platforms builds, then learn more about our change, configuration, and release management offerings. Learn more about Rational ClearCase®, Rational ClearQuest®, Rational Build Forge®, and Rational change and release management. |
| I need my mainframe and distributed software teams to collaborate and work like one team. | If you are looking for a unified software delivery platform that allows your mainframe and distributed development teams to collaborate on building multiplatform applications, to establish a common project repository on a System z server on z/OS® or z/Linux, to take advantage of System z and all the benefits that come with it, then learn more about our latest collaborative software delivery offerings for System z. Learn more about Rational Team Concert™ for System z and Rational change and release management. |
| I need to reduce the amount of time and resources it takes to test our enterprise applications that span multiple platforms. | If you need a common process to plan, track, and manage your quality process across the software lifecycle; to automate functional testing of your green screen applications; to verify whether or not your application can scale and perform under heavy user loads; or to identify vulnerabilities, privacy issues, quality exposures, and standards non-compliance, then learn more about our latest quality management solutions. Learn more about Rational Performance Tester, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Quality Manager, Rational AppScan®, and Rational quality management solutions. |
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