WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer

WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer is an environment for writing sophisticated and large-scale applications, each with numerous run-time components. Those components can arise from different programming languages and can reside on different platforms.

Enterprise Developer contains all the features of Application Developer Integration Edition. As your team designs, codes, and deploys the most complex kinds of business software, Enterprise Developer also provides the following support:

• Create ASM, COBOL, or PL/I code, including CICS, IMS, and SQL statements

• Edit, test, and compile the source code locally, then recompile the source and build a load module on a remote z/OS system

• Transfer CLISTs, REXX EXECs, and USS shell scripts to z/OS; run them and view the resultant output

• Generate partially formed JCL, customize it, submit the job stream, and inspect the output

• Access z/OS datasets by way of a workstation-like directory structure

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) provides a Rapid Application Development environment that lets you leverage existing skills to create applications that use the most up-to-date techniques. With this environment, you can implement business processes on a variety of platforms, and can deliver the enterprise-wide data to browsers, regardless of your experience with web or object-oriented technologies.

When you write code with EGL, you use a simplified language that hides the implementation details of CICS, MQSeries, and SQL. In addition to ease, EGL gives you flexibility in that your applications can be re-targeted for use on WebSphere Application Server, CICS, or other environments. You can code with fewer limits on later migration and integration.

EGL is especially helpful for creating web applications because the environment is tightly integrated with the WebSphere Studio Struts tools, and because EGL provides support for using your generated code as a web service.