Rational Developer for zEnterprise

Unified development tool for heterogeneous application development spanning systems such as z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, WAS and Power systems

Accelerates the development of your Mainframe applications, including traditional COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, EGL, Assembler, and Java/JEE applications, Web services, and XML-based interfaces across hardware platforms such as System z, Linux for System z, Power, and x86.

• Lowers 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

• Includes tools for creating and maintaining workload which spans multiple hardware environments such as System z, Power, and AIX

• Includes tools for creating Cross platform Web services, transactional processing, Web 2.0 applications, lightweight Web 2.0 applications using EGL, as well as Java Enterprise Edition applications running in WebSphere Application Server

• Operating systems supported: AIX, Linux, Windows family, z/OS

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