Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Create, maintain and enhance applications on IBM Power Systems

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IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ delivers a rich integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse platform for creating, maintaining, and migrating or porting applications to IBM Power Systems™. Rational Developer for Power Systems Software supports all three IBM Power Systems operating systems: IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux®. Rational Developer for Power Systems Software supports development in both host-connected and disconnected modes.

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software helps companies get more value from their software development resources.

  • A rich set of integrated development tools are integrated into an Eclipse workbench.
  • A productive software development environment increases the productivity and efficiency of the software organization.
  • Collaborative lifecycle management through integration with IBM Rational Team Concert™ supports planning and management of the application lifecycle process.
  • Flexible packaging offers several purchase options: separately available language-based tools for each platform; studio bundles that package tools and compilers; and Power Tools bundles that include support for Java® and web services.

A rich set of integrated development tools

  • Integrated development tools run on the developer’s Microsoft® Windows® or Linux® workstation, and provide search, edit, build, analysis, debug and refactoring capabilities.
  • Source editing capabilities include color tokenizing, outline views, content assist and integrated compile error feedback.
  • Visual analysis tools assist in understanding application structure.
  • Developer tools are designed to complement the IBM optimizing compiler offerings for Power Systems.

A productive software development environment

  • Offers a modern Eclipse-based development environment, which is familiar to many developers and reduces training time.
  • Improves developer productivity with comprehensive application development tools that are tightly integrated, making it easy to switch between tasks.
  • Allows developers to concentrate on the application logic and leave low-level systems programming details to the compilers.
  • Enables teams to be portable across projects using AIX, IBM i and Linux, as well as development tools for a wide range of programming languages including Java, Java EE, C/C++, RPG, COBOL, CL and DDS.

Collaborative lifecycle management

  • Rational Team Concert is lifecycle management software that supports geographically dispersed teams and includes agile, formal, and hybrid planning and reporting all on a common platform.
  • Integration with Rational Team Concert helps enable source control, build automation and collaborative lifecycle management of Power Systems Software projects.

Flexible packaging

  • Rational Developer for Power Systems Software offers the following tools as separate packages: C/C++ Development Tools for Linux, C/C++ Development Tools for AIX, COBOL Development Tools for AIX, and RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i.
  • Rational Developer for Power Systems Software offers the following studio bundles: C/C++ Development Studio for Linux, C/C++ Development Studio for AIX and COBOL Development Studio for AIX.
  • The Power Tools bundles are designed to provide a single, integrated development tools workbench. The two bundles are: IBM Rational Application Developer Standard Edition for WebSphere® Software with RPG and COBOL on i and Rational Application Developer Standard Edition for WebSphere Software with C/C++ on AIX.

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Client system requirements
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (32-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (32-bit or 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (32-bit or 64-bit)

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Edition

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and 6 (32 bit x86 or 64 bit x86)

SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and 11 (32 bit x86)

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
(x86-32 and x86-64)
Note: 64-bit JVM is not supported for Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64.		 The IBM i Web Services and Java™ Tools feature of IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ requires additional software. These features depend on features that are provided in any of the following products:
  • Rational Application Developer for WebSphere® Software V8.5
  • Rational Business Developer, V8.5(see Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction)
  • Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software V8.5
  • Rational Team Concert (RTC) Client V4.0 for Rational Developer Power RTC extension

One of the following Web browsers to view the readme files and the installation guide, and to support the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) browser widget:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
  • Firefox 5.0, or later


Viewing multimedia user assistance, such as tours, tutorials, and demonstration viewlets requires Adobe Flash Player, Version 6.0 release 65, or later.		 Intel(R) 1GHz processor minimum (higher is recommended)

1 GB RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended

Minimum: 1 GB of disk space is required for product package installation. Additional disk space is required for the resources that you develop.
  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.
  • Additional disk space is required if you download the product package to install this product.
  • An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory pointed to by your environment variable TEMP.

1024 x 768 resolution minimum (or higher, for best results).

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Server system requirements
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
AIX® V5.3 TL 7, or higher
AIX V6.1
AIX V7.1		 Supported compilers:
  • IBM XL C for AIX, versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.1, or 11.1
  • IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.1, or 11.1
  • IBM COBOL for AIX, versions 3.1 or 4.1
IBM i 5.4
IBM i 6.1
IBM i 7.1		 Supported compilers:

  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i V5R4 (5722-WDS)

  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i 6.1 (5761-WDS)

  • Rational Development Studio for i 7.1 (5770-WDS)



Option 60 of WebSphere Development Studio / Rational Development Studio is required for debugging applications using the integrated i debugger.

Program temporary fixes (PTFs) information - Some components need additional PTFs that are available at:

http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Rational/Rational_Developer_for_Power_Systems_Software/


More information about any required IBM i server PTFs - Can be found by:

  • Opening the Remote System Explorer perspective if it is not already open. The name of the current perspective is shown in the top left corner of the title bar for the Window. To open the Remote Systems Explorer perspective select Window > Open Perspective > Other and select Remote System Explorer from the list.

  • Creating a connection to your IBM i by expanding New Connection and double-clicking on IBM i.

  • Expanding your new connection and right click on Objects.

  • Selecting Verify Connection from the menu. This displays a dialog that shows which required PTFs are already installed on the system and which ones are missing.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Update 5 (RHEL 5.5) or higher for IBM POWER®

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (RHEL 6) for IBM POWER®

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3 (SLES 10 SP3), or higher for IBM POWER

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 (SLES 11 SP1) or higher for IBM POWER		 Supported compilers:

  • IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, versions 10.1 or 11.1

  • GNU C/C++ compiler, version 4.3 or higher

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Hosted development environments
ProductVersion
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
Presentation Server 4

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