Multiplatform development

System z demos and white papers Understanding the design, deployment and management of IBM System z

Simplify development across hardware and programming environments

IBM offers a modern Eclipse-based multiplatform development environment, accelerating development across mainframe, mid-range, and distributed environments with a modern graphic user interface that are attractive to up and coming developers but they have much to offer current programmers regardless of their programming background. The single integrated development environment (IDE) provides a common view of tiered applications that support multiple platforms, languages and technologies. This IDE is also well integrated with our collaborative application lifecycle management tools, allowing teams which are working on different parts of an overall solution to coordinate their application development requirements, tasks, builds, and tests for even greater productivity.

The multiplatform solution helps:

Lower overall enterprise development and maintenance costs.
Increase developer productivity, quality and faster time to market.
Attract new talent quickly, reduce training time and costs.
Free up more system capacity for production workloads usage.

Featured multiplatform development products

Rational Developer for System z and zEnterprise System
Accelerate the development of CICS, IMS, DB2, and WAS applications while helping make multi-platform application development faster, more efficient, and less expensive.
Rational Development and Test Environment for System z
Development and test environment for mainframe applications, complimenting the Rational Developer for System z products.
Rational Developer for Power Systems
Integrated development and debug tools for AIX, IBM i, and Linux, covering C/C++ and COBOL application development.

Rational Team Concert
A unified and collaborative multiplatform team infrastructure including support for System z, IBM Power Systems™ and distributed systems to help streamline the entire application development and deployment life cycle across all operating environments.
Rational Application Developer
Optimize development for IBM middleware, helping Java developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/Java EE ™, Portal, Web/Web 2.0, OSGi, Web services and SOA applications.