Rational Developer family

Modernize applications for IBM Power Systems and IBM i

IBM® Rational® Developer products provide capabilities for developing IBM i applications, web applications, traditional COBOL and PL/I applications, web services and XML-based interfaces. These products deliver an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports end-to-end, model-based development, runtime testing, and modernization of your existing mainframe and midrange applications.

Product editions

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software: Is an advanced enterprise development solution for WebSphere environments. This software helps Java developers design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy Java, Java EE, portal, web and Web 2.0, OSGi, web services, and SOA applications. It includes developer test and analysis tools to help you find and fix problems early in the development process.
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Rational Business Developer:
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Rational Developer for Power Systems Software: An Eclipse-based IDE for creating applications that run partly or fully on IBM AIX®, IBM i or Linux® on IBM Power Systems™ hardware. Supports development with several choices of languages and application modernization approaches.
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Rational Developer for System z: Provides modern application development tools for applications running on IBM z/OS® operating systems.
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Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction: A software bundle that includes IBM Rational Business Developer, IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software: RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i, and the IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services Toolkit. This bundle enables you to build Web 2.0 applications and user interfaces that link to backend RPG, COBOL and EGL business applications.
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