Rational Developer

Overview

This product contains Rational Business Developer and Rational Developer for Power Systems Software RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i.

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction enables you to build innovative rich Web 2.0 applications, and user interfaces (UI), so you can link to the backend RPG, COBOL, and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) business applications.

• Deliver more projects, faster: Allows you to focus on solving business problems and enables you to modernize and extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications. Accelerate in-house development of web and SOA solutions.
• Modernize applications: Easily extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications to the web and mobile devices, or into web services. Modernize 5250 user interfaces with the HATS toolkit.
• Improve developer productivity: Realize productivity gains by moving from older text-based, command-line development tools, to an integrated development environment.
• Lower development and training costs: Leverage a modern integrated development environment to attract and retain new talent, many of whom are familiar with Eclipse tools, thereby helping to lower training costs.
• Reuse and extend IT assets: Make developers portable across multiple projects and a variety of programming languages and target platforms.
• Lean collaborative lifecycle management: Seamless integration with Rational Team Concert enables source control, build automation, and collaborative application lifecycle management (CALM) of software projects.
• What’s New: What’s new in Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction, V8.0 including the latest development tools to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on IBM i.
• Operating systems supported: Windows family

IBM Announces Its Next Generation Platform; IBM PureSystems 24/04/2012

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