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Wednesday, 09 February 2011 00:00

IBM is encouraging IBM i developers to try its enterprise modernization products in a cloud environment where they don't need to install any software. Developers today can work through common modernization scenarios using the latest IBM development tools to see if they would be candidates for possible purchase later.

In the company's Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for Power Systems, part of IBM developerWorks, IBM provides developers with a series of three-hour time blocks to work through pre-designed exercises that replicate various modernization challenges in a typical business environment. If you need more than three hours, the company now offers an "extended experience" that allows you to secure additional time.

Among the products available to try include Rational Developer for Power Systems Software (RD for Power, formerly RDi), Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms (HATS), Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, Rational Business Developer, and Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software, as well as access to several compilers for AIX.

Direct from the IBM website, below you will find all the links that you should need to set up your system and run through the series of exercises in the cloud. You may wish to print out the PDF exercise instructions before beginning each one. You will need to register on the IBM website and have an IBM user ID, usually your email address, in order to get started. Be sure to read the online trial use agreement.

IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for Power

Sign in to start your trial now

If you're trying the sandbox for the first time, follow these steps to get up and running quickly. The quick start guide includes information on user IDs and passwords.

  1. Download and install the Citrix client. (Click the Back button on your browser to return to this page.)
  2. Select a product or an exercise from the table below and print the exercise instructions.
  3. Need more than 3 hours? Consider an extended experience! (Click the Back button on your browser to return to this page.)

Scripted, hands-on exercises you can try in the Sandbox

Exercise instructions (in pdf)

Products used in the exercise

Explore RPG and COBOL development using modern tools

Lab 01: Maintain an IBM i application

Lab 02: Edit RPG applications

Lab 03: Verify and compile RPG applications

Lab 04: Debug IBM i programs

Lab 05: the Use Screen Designer to generate source

Lab 06: Use the Application Diagram Viewer

Lab 07: Customize the Remote Systems Explorer

Lab 08: Work with offline projects

Lab 09: Work with Report Designer

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Transform existing 5250 green screens into Web user interfaces or Web services

Transform 5250 green screens to Web applications

Transform 5250 green screens to Web services

Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms

Accelerate development of modern Web 2.0 and SOA applications for Power Systems

Building a web service from an RPG program

Service enable IBM i data

Consume service in browser-based web applications

Consume services in rich client applications

Access DB2 UDB data in browser-based applications

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Explore C/C++ development for AIX using modern tools

Lab 01: Create a connection for AIX on Power Systems

Lab 02: Create a C/C++ remote project for AIX on Power Systems

Lab 03: Compile a C/C++ application for AIX on Power Systems

Lab 04: Debug a C/C++ application for AIX on Power Systems

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Take advantage of our modern business language EGL for multiplatform development environments

Build Web 2.0 applications using EGL

Create and consume web services

Call Power Systems programs from EGL

Rational Business Developer

Collaborative application lifecycle management

Lab 1: Verify lab and configuration

Lab 2: Import IBM i source repository

Lab 3: Build specification

Lab 4: Create build repository workspace and build definition

Lab 5: Typical tester and developer activities

Lab 6: Request team build

Lab 7: Change promotion activities

Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software

Optimize server performance and programmer productivity with IBM compilers

Enhanced performance with new XL C/C++ and Fortran compilers

Explore auto-vectorization

Explore IBM XL C/C++ compilers for AIX optimization options

Explore IBM XL C/C++ compilers for AIX optimization options Level 2

Discover uninitialized floating point and integer variables

Interoperability of IBM XL Fortran, IBM XL C/C++, and Java

Integrate IBM COBOL for AIX with Java

Learn how increasing optimization level for IBM XL C/C++ compilers AIX for can improve performance

Debug optimized C code using the dbx debug program and the XL C compiler

Explore optimization opportunities with XML transformation reports

XL C/C++ Compiler

XL Fortran Compiler

 

Essential resources

Video: 10-minute overview of products in the sandbox

e-Kit: EmPower your business

Quick start guide to the sandbox

Enterprise Modernization home page

Recent announcements

Developer support

Rational Cafe Community forums, blogs, and resources

Discuss connectivity issues

Connectivity FAQs

Submit feedback about the sandbox

Free distance training

IBM products available in this sandbox

Design and development

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Rational Host Access Transformation Services

Rational Business Developer

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software

Optim Development Studio

XL C/C++ for AIX

XL Fortran for AIX

COBOL for AIX

Collaborative application lifecycle management

Rational Team Concert for Power Systems

Middleware

DB2

WebSphere Application Server

Connectivity

IBM Power Systems

How to buy

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software

Rational Business Developer

Rational Team Concert for Power Systems Software

XL C/C++ for AIX

XL C/C++ for Linux

XL Fortan for AIX

XL Fortran for Linux

 

 


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