IBM Rational Developer for System z is a modern eclipse based IDE speeding composite application development. With its powerful features RDz can really increase the productivity of mainframe application developers thus solving the problems of time to market and budget constraints.

This is a specialized tool for multi-platform development so whether you have teams working with COBOL , PL/I, C, C++, HLASM, Java or EGL , all they need is this single interface to develop their code efficiently. It has also a capability forward engineering which means now you can easily transform UML models to COBOL. This simplified development helps to attract new talent to work in modern mainframe application development environment where they no longer be asked to work with scary green screens.

RDz provides new young developers an interactive access like real time syntax checking and features like remote and local debugging which improves the product quality immensely. RDz can easily be integrated with other Rational CLM tools to achieve better source control management.

• Supports common IDE for COBOL, PL/I, C, C++, HL ASSEMBLER, Java, and Web Services
• Provides interactive access to z/OS for development, debug, job generation, submission, monitoring, command execution
• Supports new and existing runtimes (CICS, IMS, Batch, USS, DB2 Stored Procedure, Application Servers.
• Transforms UML to COBOL source code
• Integration with z/OS tools
• Enables CICS and IMS applications for Web Services and SOA
• Supports for J2EE, JCA, XML, Web Services

Fast Enterprise Application Development & Maintenance with Rational Developer for System Z

Two Rational Developer for System Z (RDz) Offerings