EmPOWER your business by accelerating software innovation
Many businesses running IBM i (formerly i5/OS and OS/400) have an existing inventory of applications, data and business processes that are rooted in RPG or COBOL language-based, green-screen applications. Businesses trying to enhance or extend these applications to the Web, or integrate with partners and suppliers, often face technical challenges or skills shortages. Rational software can help businesses overcome these challenges by providing tools, processes and best practices to enable existing and new IT staff to build and deploy modern Web 2.0 or SOA-based applications for IBM i without rewriting the proven code that works – thus lowering the risk and total cost of deploying new innovative business solutions.
IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization solutions offer a low-risk, high-value path to IBM i application modernization and flexibility by:
- Maximizing reuse of software investments through application discovery, analysis, revitalizing and repurposing core applications
- Leveraging existing and new people skills to deliver modern SOA and Web 2.0 based applications, regardless of the target platform
- Unifying siloed development teams on a open, modular, integrated platform
- Increasing system utilization by optimizing application infrastructure
Introduction to Rational Developer for Power family of products
With the introduction of the Rational Developer for Power family of products for Power Systems, developing applications on this platform has now become much easier and faster. Rational Developer for Power tools help designers, developers, testers, and others involved in the collaborative application life cycle development effort to maximize the efficiency of the process. These tools ensure faster product delivery, improve overall efficiency, lower costs, enhance risk management, and better support compliance requirements.
The Rational Developer for Power family of products includes integrated development environments for the major development workloads on IBM i, AIX, and Linux, including Java, RPG, COBOL, C/C++, and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).
- Rational Developer for Power Systems Software provides development tools for RPG and COBOL on IBM i, C/C++ for AIX and Linux, and COBOL for AIX.
- Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software provides Java and JEE tools.
- Rational Business Developer provides the EGL development tools.
- Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction provides tools for Web, Web Services, and SOA designers and developers, including the HATS Toolkit.
- Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative application lifecycle management for Power Systems development.
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