Rational Developer for System z

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Rational® Developer for System z speeds the development of traditional mainframe, Web and composite applications

Accelerates the development of your Web applications, traditional COBOL and PL/I applications, Web services and XML-based interfaces.

• With this new release, WebSphere Developer for System z has been renamed to Rational Developer for System z
• Includes significant enhancements in Version 7.1 that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation
• Helps improve the productivity of developers creating and maintaining mainframe applications and web services before, during and after the transition to a SOA-based environment
• Facilitates shorter development cycles and helps reduce costs by extracting value from existing applications through reuse and transformation, making them accessible as Web services
• Helps simplify the overall service-flow development process with enterprise service tools
• Enables developers to rapidly create well-built composite processing that integrates transactional and WebSphere–based environments
• Read about a Developer Productivity Study by Branham Group which compares IBM Rational Developer for System z to traditional IBM Mainframe Development Tools
• Operating systems supported: Windows, z/OS

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IBM Rational Developer for System z V7.1 helps make traditional development fast and efficient

Additional products, services and solutions

Products WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer Enables IT organizations to increase maintenance productivity Services IBM Software Services for Rational Assists enterprise modernization and rapid application Development using Rational Developer for System z Solutions Rational Transformation Workbench Provides assistance in identifying and transforming existing COBOL code to a web service View all additional offerings

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