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 IBM®Rational® Developer for System z® and Rational Team Concert™.
Rational Programming Patterns for System z provides your development
teams with many features and benefits:
- 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 Patterns provide a powerful capability for reusing logic
among programs, minimizing complexity through encapsulation while
providing a single point of maintenance.
- COBOL micropatterns 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 Pacbase v3.5. In conjunction
with a set of comparison tools to check that the migration went well.