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A unified development tool for enterprise applications running across System z in environments such as CICS, IMS, DB2, WAS, Compute Grid, and Batch.
Accelerates the development of your Mainframe applications, including traditional COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, and Assembler applications, Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Services, Web 2.0 applications, Java Batch application in Compute Grid, and XML-based interfaces linking to the Web.
Helps lower the cost of traditional mainframe application development via selective workload offloading and reducing MIPS utilization for common development activities
New Rational Developer for System z Unit Test feature creates a personal z/OS environment on each developers desktop or a shared server.
Helps improve the productivity of developers creating and maintaining mainframe applications and web services before, during and after the transition to a SOA-based environment
Facilitates shorter development cycles and helps reduce costs by extracting value from existing applications through reuse and transformation, making them accessible as Web services
Enables developers to rapidly create well-built composite processing that integrates traditional mainframe CICS or IMS transactional applications and WebSphere–based environments
Read about a Developer Productivity Study by Branham Group which compares IBM Rational Developer for System z to traditional IBM Mainframe Development Tools
Helps develop creative and data-rich Web-based applications
Provides visual layout tools to help you write Java Server Faces (JSF), JavaServer Pages (JSP), and HTML
Includes a wizard to develop servlet and page handler code and supports J2EE coding and deployment
Includes significant enhancements in Version 8.0 that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation
Product framework
Included components
Integrated tools help rapidly design, develop, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/JEE™, Portal, Web/Web2.0 and SOA applications
Additional extender(s)
Personal z/OS environment for application development and testing on x86 hardware
Additional products, services and solutions
Products
Improves the health of the application portfolios of an organization
Services
Assists enterprise modernization and rapid application development using Rational Developer for System z
Solutions
Cost effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies
