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Avoid costly rip-and-replace approaches


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Architecture modernization

Modernization must also address the complex dimensions of architectural challenges. Fragmented business processes, workflows, data and tightly coupled application architectures reduce your flexibility and agility to move to new technologies.

There are a variety of approaches and techniques that will transform your core systems into flexible applications and services while avoiding costly and high risk rip-and-replace approaches. Once you've decided on your architecture, having the right tools to modularize your legacy systems is critically important.

Our design and construction tools help you rapidly design, create, assemble, test, and deploy high-quality Web, Web services, portal and SOA applications for IBM CICS®, IBM IMS™, and IBM WebSphere Application Server. By working with what you already have, you can reduce time to market, improve business alignment for growth, cut cost and limit business risk.

What we offer

If you need to…   IBM Software can help
Speed the efficiency of traditional mainframe, Web development and integrated mixed-workload development   IBM Rational Developer for System z™ — allows developers to easily create IBM z/OS® operating system–based applications including traditional CICS, IMS, COBOL, PL/I, Web, Web services and XML-based applications.
Break skills silos by simplifying and accelerating cross-platform development   IBM Rational Business Developer Extension — enables business developers to deliver cross-platform Web and service-oriented applications (SOA) through Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).

Increase productivity and reduce training costs by extending host applications to modern user interfaces   IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services — allows developers to easily create Web and rich-client applications for your character-based 3270 and 5250 host applications as well as create services for SOA implementations.

Accelerate the adoption of SOA by rendering existing IT assets as service components, encouraging reuse and efficiency   IBM Rational Software Architect — helps architects and developers design and construct well-architected applications and services using model-driven development approach based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Create enterprise data standards, verify compliance, and generate compliant models   IBM Rational Data Architect — provides data architects understanding of their heterogeneous data assets and their relationships, the ability to design federated databases and streamline enterprise-wide database projects.

Spotlight

Technical briefing: Modern application development featuring Web 2.0 for System z

developerWorks: Did you say mainframe? e-kit

System z Sandbox: Try our latest products in a virtual online environment

Whitepaper: The business value of Enterprise Modernization


Highlights

Podcast: Building Next Generation Mainframe Applications with Rational Developer for System z and Rational Business Developer

Podcast: Build Modern Interfaces and Services with Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS)

Demo: Rational Developer for System z

Demo: Web Application Development with Rational Business Developer


Tutorials

Explore local IBM z/OS application development with Rational Developer for System z

Try remote IBM z/OS application development with IBM Rational Developer for System z (3.8MB)

Transform 3270 green screens to Web services using Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms (3MB)

Enable an IMS application as a Web service running in IMS SOAP Gateway on Microsoft Windows


Related links

IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform

IBM System z

IBM System z Software

EGL Café: Online community for EGL developers


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