Extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM® Rational® Software Delivery Platform (SDP). Register now to take advantage of this collection of resources designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise.

The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen phenomenal growth in the application of IT technology, enabling businesses to grow and change as never before. Rather than diminishing, demand for more IT is increasing, driven by mergers and acquisitions, innovative products, or new markets.

In addition, the much-promoted vision that SOA leads to business flexibility is increasing the demand for even more change as the chief executive officer (CEO) and line of business managers see SOA as an attractive route to competitive advantage.

Although some assume that SOA is strictly a distributed phenomenon, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. You have only to look at the latest versions of IBM transaction servers, such as CICS, to see how these servers have embraced the Web service architecture. The challenge for today’s IT groups comes in implementing this new architecture using existing mainframe IT infrastructure and assets. You have many years worth of applications, some performing critical business functions, as well as huge investments in mainframe computing. Leveraging these investments, as well as your investments in your staff, is critical to a successful SOA implementation.

This complimentary kit for mainframe developers is a practical, how-to guide for making the most of an existing development environment, including the skills and infrastructure already in place at an established enterprise.

Register to receive the e-kit today!

Use the resources in this kit to help you:

• Modernize your application architecture
• Simplify your development environment
• Manage your processes and systems

In this kit:
This kit contains the following podcasts, webcasts, tutorials, white and red papers, demos, and articles: Podcast series: Did you say mainframe?! Webcasts:

• Accelerate the successful integration of existing mainframe applications into the Web world
• Using SCMs and WebSphere® Developer for System z to optimize System z development
• Unleash the power of enterprise assets and skills with Smart SOA
• Enterprise COBOL and Rational Developer for System z: How they play in an SOA world

• Create COBOL programs and Web services without writing code
• Create a Web page to invoke a COBOL CICS Web service
• Create a Web service from a CICS application
• Create a Web front end for your Web service
• Build a Web page from a Web service
• Create a Java™ Web application without knowing the Java language
• Create a Java Web service-without knowing the Java language

• Using model-driven development (MDD) in a mainframe environment
• Writing Java applications for System z
• Unleashing the power of your mainframe assets into the SOA world
• System z tools for SOA development
• Avoiding the $25 Million Server Data Center Power, Cooling, and Growth
• Mainframe server consolidation should be on your hit list
• The Role of IBM System z In the Design of a Service Oriented Architecture
• Using IBM WebSphere Developer for System z and TXSeries for Multiplatforms to build CICS applications

• System i modernization: Rational Business Developer
• Unify your System z test efforts with IBM Rational Software
• Unify your System i test efforts with IBM Rational software
• Host on Demand IBM Enterprise Modernization

• Rational Developer for zOS
• WebSphere on System z
• Rational Business Developer Extension product page
• The "Secrets of SOA" (one free chapter)