IBM has introduced new software to help customers
modernise the applications on their mainframes.
has introduced new software to help customers modernise the
applications on their mainframes.
As an extension of IBM's £50m Mainframe Simplification
investment announced in 2006, the new software portfolio helps
System z customers shorten deployment cycles, and helps
developers with diverse technical backgrounds to create
higher-value technology systems, said IBM.
One key component of the IBM offering is
IBM
Rational Developer for System z v7.1. Available now, the
software simplifies web,
service orientated
architecture and cross-platform development of mainframe CICS,
IMS, and WebSphere applications.
It hides the technical complexity of runtimes and middleware and
ensures easy interoperability with existing processing and data,
IBM said.
Additional IBM offerings for building a more modern computing
environment include IBM Rational Business Developer Extension v7.0,
to increase productivity without the need to learn
Cobol, PL/I, Java or other lower-level mainframe programming
languages.
And IBM Rational Transformation Workbench v3.1 - available from
next month - helps bridge the knowledge gap that sometimes exists
between business processes and the IBM System z applications that
automate them, IBM said.
In addition, IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v4.1 and IBM
Enterprise PL /I for z/OS v3.7 are compilers that integrate System
z applications with web-oriented business processes and simplify
the componentisation of COBOL and PL/I applications.