Rational Programming Patterns for System z provides an
integrated Development Environment dedicated to Pacbase models and
programs based on the Rational Software Delivery Platform -Eclipse
interface and documentation fully integrated with RDz and RTC.
Rational Programming Patterns for System z provides your development
teams with many features and befenits:
- Enhances IBM Rational Developer for System z with Java and IBM
Rational Team Concert with additional new functionalities adapted
to the Pacbase Pattern Driven development concept.
- Data description patterns help to master the information concept
of an IT system in a form that is understandable by a business domain
specialist and consumable by software developers.
- Programming Patterns for Traditional applications provide a set
of models to improve the productivity of the developers.
- Macro-structure Patterns provide a powerful capability for reusing
logic among programs, minimizing complexity through encapsulation
while providing a single point of maintenance.
- COBOL Micro-Patterns contribute to increase the development productivity,
as a powerful way to insert a group, or several groups, of generated
COBOL lines in a COBOL program, replacing favorably complex Pacbase
operators and preserving the productivity of a developer when he has
to insert business logic into generated source code.
- Extended COBOL source code editor facilitates the maintenance
of user-specific code in the generated source code by optimizing the
tasks a developer has to manage in a generated COBOL source code (e.g.
filters, wizards, syntax highlighting, content assist, real-time syntax
check and interactive debugging).
- Impact analysis and multi-criteria search, as an extension of
the Rational Team Concert Repository services contribute to increase
the maintenance productivity.
- Provided generators generate a COBOL source code syntactically
equivalent to the COBOL source code generated by VisualAge Pacbase
v3.5. In conjunction with a set of comparison tools to check that
the migration went well.