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IBM COBOL for AIX enables you to selectively target code generation of your programs to
either exploit a particular POWER systems architecture or to be balanced among all
supported POWER systems. The performance of COBOL for AIX applications is improved by
means of an enhanced back-end optimizer. The back-end optimizer, a component common
also to the IBM XL compilers, lets your applications leverage the latest industry-leading
optimization technology.
The performance of IBM PL/I for AIX applications has been improved through both front-end
changes and back-end optimizer enhancements. The back-end optimizer, a component
common also to the IBM XL compilers, lets your applications leverage the latest
industry-leading optimization technology. The PL/I compiler produces code that is intended to
perform well across all hardware levels on AIX.
IBM Rational Developer for AIX and Linux, C/C++ Edition provides a rich set of integrated
development tools that support XL C for AIX, XL C/C++ for AIX, and XL C/C++ for Linux
compiler. It also supports the GNU compiler and debugger on Linux on x86 architectures to
make it possible to do development on other infrastructures and then easily port and optimize
the resultant workloads to run on POWER and fully exploit the POWER platform's unique
qualities of service. Tool capabilities include file management, searching, smart assistive
editing, application analysis, unit test automation, code coverage analysis, a unique expert
system Migration and Porting Assistant, a unique expert system Performance Advisor, local
build, and cross-language/cross-platform debugger, all integrated into an Eclipse workbench.
This solution can greatly improve developers' productivity and initial code quality with
resultant benefits to downstream disciplines such as QA and Operations.
IBM Rational Developer for AIX and Linux, AIX COBOL Edition provides a rich set of
integrated development tools that support the COBOL for AIX compiler. Capabilities include
file management, searching, smart assistive editing, application analysis, local build, and
cross-language/cross-platform debugger, all integrated into an Eclipse workbench. This
solution can boost developers' productivity by moving from older, text-based, command-line
development tools to a rich set of integrated development tools and unlike competing
distributed COBOL IDEs, is not dependent upon an expensive companion COBOL runtime
environment.
IBM Rational Development Studio for IBM i 7.2 provides programming languages for creating
modern business applications. This includes:
The ILE RPG, ILE COBOL, C, and C++ compilers
The heritage RPG and COBOL compilers
Application Development ToolSet (ADTS), the text-based development tools (such as SEU
and PDM)
The latest release includes support for free-form RPG and better Unicode handling and
continues to support Open Access: RPG Edition as an included technology.
IBM Rational Developer for i provides a rich set of integrated development tools that support
the IBM i ILE compilers. Tool capabilities include file management, searching, smart assistive
editing, application analysis, code coverage analysis, and cross-language/cross-platform
debugger, all integrated into an Eclipse workbench. This solution can greatly improve
developers' productivity as compared to using text-based and command-line development
tools, and is more appealing than such tools when you need to recruit new IBM i development
talent.
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