© 2014 IBM Corporation Rational Development and Test Environment for System z Rational Development and Test Environment for System z (RD&T) Off host mainframe

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Rational Development and Test Environment for System z

Rational Development and Test Environment for System z (RD&T)Off host mainframe development and testing

Mark BoydClient Technical Specialist, Rational Enterprise ModernizationAlisa MorseRD&T Product Manager10/7/14



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Business constraints with mainframe development todayWhich limits the amount of System z production workload coming online

“My development capacity charge-back is consuming my entire budget.

I can’t spend on tools.”

“We don’t have the capital budget to obtain more mainframe

test resources for my developers. It’s easier and cheaper to get a Windows or Unix

box.”

“I can’t even work on Mondays! Production workload kicks me off.”

“It is difficult for my developers to learn the mainframe.

Operations controls can prevent experimentation by developers..”

“I can only test my batch applications in offline hours.

Online apps consume the 9-5 cycles.”

“Operations tell me it will take two months to get my test

system allocated.”

“The Mainframe isn’t cool anymore. It’s faster and cheaper to develop on

a Unix platform.”

“I want to try out creating Event Processing and ATOM apps, but my system isn’t scheduled for a

CICS update till 2013.”



RD&T Description

Dev and Test Environment

x86 PC or HX5 Blade running Linux

System z S/W Stack

Debug Tool

CICS DB2 WebSphere/z IMS

Assembler COBOL C/C++ PL/I z/OS

Rational Dev and Test

RTCz Agent RDz Agent

<USB License Key>

The Dev and Test Environment consists of: Dev and Test Environment (based on

zPDT) Dev and Test Environment can provide a

System z development platform on a PC capable of running z/OS provides great flexibility to run a

customized environment

Software stack provides a choice of IBM middleware test environments actual middleware software (including

z/OS) actual enterprise compilers no API simulation

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Typical uses

Prototyping and V2V migration- drive newer technologies and levels of software to production more quickly

Employee Education in an indestructible, approachable environment

Distributing development and test activities for higher availability, quality, and productivity. Benefits:

– Increased availability of mainframe dev/test environment

– Reduces issues with shared data

– No waiting for sys admins to make changes on the mainframe

Enabling new software delivery methodologies such as Continuous Integration

Enabling development and test for geographically dispersed and outsourced teams

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A leading global financial services firm with assets of over $2 trillion

Reduced manual testing from 10 days to 10 minutes, saving over $7 million to date

Develop and test z/OS applications anywhere, anytime

Free up mainframe development MIPS for production workload

Eliminate costly delays by reducing burden on existing IT operations staff

Exploit the latest z/OS software, including z/OS 2.1, CICS 5.2, IMS 13, and COBOL 5.1

Includes Rational Integration Tester 8.6 z/OS components to minimize subsystem dependencies during unit testing

Affordable off host development and test

environment

A leading provider of vehicle rentals increased developer productivity by 25% and decreased time to market

RDz & ISPF

RDz

Create additional mainframe development and test capacity without increasing MIPS

Note: This Program is licensed only for development and test of applications that run on IBM z/OS. The Program may not be used to run production workloads of any kind, nor more robust development workloads including without limitation production module builds, pre-production testing, stress testing, or performance testing.



z/OS 2.1 Distribution z/OS V2.1, including sub-features

• Encryption Facility

• IBM HTTP Server

• DITTO/ESA

• IBM z/OS Management Facility

IBM PD Tools

• Tools Base for z/OS

• IBM Debug Tool 13.1

• IBM File Manager 13.1**

– IBM Fault Analyzer 13.1**

CICS Transaction Server

• CICS 4.2, 5.1, 5.2

• CICS/VSAM Recovery 5.1, 5.2

• CICS Transaction Gateway 9.0

CICS Tools

• Interdependency Analyzer for CICS for z/OS 5.1, 5.2**

• CICS Deployment Assistant 5.1, 5.2

Tivoli

• Tivoli System Automation for z/OS 3.5

• Tivoli NetView 6.1

• Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS 9.2

Compilers

• IBM Compiler for REXX 1.4

• IBM Enterprise PL/I 4.4

• IBM COBOL 5.1

• IBM Rational COBOL Runtime 6.0.1 (EGL)

• XL C++ 2.1

• IBM Java SDK for z/OS 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1

WebSphere Application Server for z/OS 8.0, 8.5, Liberty Profile

DB2 for z/OS

• DB2 for z/OS 10, 11

• DB2 Utility Suite for z/OS

• DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS

• DB2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS

• DB2 for z/OS QMF

IMS

• IMS 11, 12, 13

• IMS Utilities 12

• IMS Database Control Suite for z/OS 12

WebSphere MQ for z/OS 7.1

Rational Developer for System z 9.1 z/OS components

Rational Team Concert 5.0 z/OS components

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Benefits of Rational Development and Test Environment for System z

Better quality

– Better development and test coverage earlier in the cycle- defects eliminated at code phase cost 12x less than those found in QA

– Enable easier problem determination with isolated environments

Free up development and test MIPS for higher value workloads

– Reduce development and test costs, including development and test capacity chargebacks

– Implement DevOps practices to improve quality and delivery time without consuming mainframe resources

Reduce cycle time

– Enable teams to work in parallel by distributing dev and test activities

– Liberate developers to rapidly prototype application changes- no waiting for operations

– Automate activities without worrying about MIPS consumption

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Learning Resources

RD&T Product Page

How to create your own mainframe application development sandbox with RD&T

z/OS Continuous Integration dW article

DevOps for the Enterprise tech talks: http://bit.ly/1b4wl18

RD&T Product Documentation, including zPDT Redbooks

RD&T Hub

If you are interested in trying RD&T yourself, please contact Brad Adams ([email protected])

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