The biggest change, perhaps, and one that is entirely expected, is that the System i platform is being drawn into the Rational Developer fold. IBM is also announcing a new version of its Rational development tools for the System i platform, including an extended product that brings the Rational Business Developer language–what we used to know as Enterprise Generation Language, or EGL–into the System i world. IBM is also combining its Host Access Transformation Server and WebFacing tools, which are used to modernize legacy applications, into a single product.
On the server side of the repackaging, the product that was formerly known as WebSphere Development Studio will be split into three pieces, which customers can order separately as they see fit.
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The executives in IBM’s Toronto software labs responsible for compilers and related development tools have been working for the Rational division for some time now, but with the launch of V6R1, IBM is making it all official and revamping the development tool products for the System i platform to map to what Rational does for other platforms while at the same time retaining the important tools that are key to the System i. While prior releases have also been big in terms of bringing database clustering, integrated high availability plumbing, logical partitioning, an AIX runtime environment, support for Linux, or the WebSphere application server and development tools, just to name some big features from the past decade’s worth of OS/400 and i5/OS versions and releases, V6R1 is important in that it involves the rejiggering and repackaging of the application development toolset for the System i platform.Īs part of the announcements last week, the System i platform is formally and finally being pulled in alongside IBM‘s other platforms–z/OS and AIX (and others that it supports, mainly Linux and Windows, but also HP-UX and Solaris)–over at its Rational software development division within Software Group. If it has not been made clear to you yet from our coverage of i5/OS V6R1, this is a big release. WDSC Is Out, Rational Developer for System i Is In