IBM Rational now offers new and enhanced solutions to help accelerate software innovation on System z, enabling organizations to leverage growing ecosystem of skills, solutions and services. The new capabilities help ease transformation of enterprise assets and skills toward modern architectures and technologies.
The new and enhanced offerings help organizations:
- Reduce cost and risks of rewrite by reusing and integrating core application assets with Web services and modern user interfaces.
- Leverage IBM’s newest business language -- EGL -- to achieve new levels of business value and innovation.
- Increase productivity and eliminate technology silos by simplifying development environment.
- Increase efficiency and lower costs by consolidating fragmented processes, tools and infrastructures.
Learn how the following new and enhanced IBM Rational System z offerings can help empower your IT teams to speed deployment of next generation System z applications. |
IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z
IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z help organizations cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems toward modern architectures and technologies, reducing maintenance burden, freeing resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities. These solutions focus on five key modernization areas – assets, architectures, skills, processes, and investments – and are based upon real customer experiences and offer a proven path to get you started with your mainframe modernization projects.
IBM System z Sandbox to quickly explore new offerings online
IBM System z Sandbox to help you explore the IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for System z through practical, hands-on experience. The System z Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these solutions by providing a low-risk "tinker, test, and try" learning environment that's designed for enterprise architects, application developers, and Web developers, but available to everyone. You can get a quick overview of the products that are featured in the System z Sandbox by watching the new solution video – Accelerating software innovation on System z.
Leverage new and existing skills to drive innovation with technology advancements
IBM Rational Business Developer adds the latest version of EGL, IBM’s newest business language for the mainframe development community. IBM Rational Business Developer delivers an Eclipse™-based integrated developer environment (IDE) for EGL, a modern language designed to shield programmers from the technical complexities of Web and SOA middleware standards.
Extend value of existing enterprise assets
IBM Rational Transformation Workbench helps accelerate your path to reuse and SOA readiness. With the new V3.1 release, Asset Transformation Workbench is now called Rational Transformation Workbench. The new capabilities speed up the identification of your company valuable business rules and restructures key components for reuse in SOA; reducing cost and time of on-going application modernization and maintenance activities.
IBM Rational Developer for System z helps speed efficiency of traditional mainframe, Web development and composite applications. With the new v7.1 release, WebSphere Developer for System z has been renamed to Rational Developer for System z. The new release includes significant enhancements that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation.
IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) for Multiplatforms is a follow on version of WebSphere HATS that makes modernization of 3270 User Interfaces (UI) and creation of Web services even easier. In addition to the new simplified pricing structure, key new features are planned for the next release includes mobile device support, JSR 168 support, and Web services usability improvements.
Enable business flexibility and change across the software lifecycle
In addition to flexibly packaged and priced development tools, IBM Rational also offers a complete suite of tools designed to improve team collaboration, and application quality for your total System z application development lifecycle.
Rational ClearQuest® lowers costs by eliminating duplicate tools and realizes improved end-to-end communication and traceability across the entire lifecycle.
Rational ClearCase and Rational Build Forge® help manage application source code, verify software builds and document the exact software versions for compliance.
Rational RequisitePro® helps global teams to clearly understand and effectively manage changing requirements in their natural context while also reducing rework by improving global requirements communication and interpretation.
Rational Method Composer enforces software governance policies and procedures across functionally diverse and geographically distributed teams.
Rational Manual Tester and Rational Functional Tester and 3270 extension help automate application functional and regression testing.
Rational Performance Tester helps validate the scalability and reliability of web-based applications before deployment.
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