IBM Rational Business Developer Extension and IDS Cheetah

Along with IDS Cheetah and its Administration Free Zone features, IBM® Rational® Business Developer Extension (RBDe) and EGL offer you the potential for unprecedented productivity. The Rational Business Developer Extension workbench enables developers to exploit emerging technologies to fulfill new and changing business requirements and deliver modern solutions in record time. Rational Business Developer Extension is particularly valuable to Informix users. It:

• Helps accelerate delivery of Web and SOA systems with a simplified development environment
• Helps eliminate skills silos and achieve new levels of flexibility and responsiveness through a unified, easy-to-learn programming approach
• Enables you to build innovative, modern solutions with minimal developer retraining, and helps guard against technology changes
• Helps reduce IT costs with higher developer productivity and easy reuse and extension of legacy assets
• Provides a modern, extensible software development environment that provides first class support and integration with Informix data servers.
• Offers a development methodology that is familiar and easy to learn for Informix 4gl developers
• Affords the flexibility to deploy the same applications and services to a variety of different environments, from Windows, to Unix or Linux, to mainframes such as System i and System z
• Provides a broad choice of application topologies and User Interfaces, from client/server solutions with Text or GUI interfaces to Application Server based Web solutions.
• Offers a significant investment protection for Informix 4gl users who want to leverage legacy application investments into new modern solutions: Rational Business Developer Extension comes with built-in tools to automatically convert i4gl source to EGL, and to convert Text UI dialogs into GUIs.