RDz provides quantified DevOps benefits to organizations now through automation, advanced tooling, and agile development capabilities. It automates application modernization, continuous integration processes, and other DevOps tooling. RDz offers advanced functionality for integrated program analysis, interactive testing/debugging, pattern-based development, and external tool integration. It also facilitates agile processes through seamless integration with Rational Team Concert for source management, work items, and continuous integration artifacts. Case studies show RDz delivers benefits like reduced time-to-market, improved application quality, and increased developer efficiency.

1. DEZ-1627: Rational Developer for z
Systems:
DevOps Benefits Here and Now

2. Growing impatient waiting for DevOps benefits?
• Have you ever noticed how often certain techno-marketing terms show up in slide presentations
• From Interconnect:
– “Innovation”
– “Transform”
– “Building”
– And my personal favorite “Re-imagine” 
• What do all of these marketing triggers have in common?
– They’re all future tense
– There’s an implied long-term ROI
• But never more so than today, business requires solutions that produce benefits – here and now
• So with apologies to Fritz Perls let’s look at a product that delivers – quantified DevOps benefits –
today.

3. Application outcomes
Business benefits
DevOps Quantified Benefits – RDz’s Impact
Reduced Time-
to-Market
Improved
Application
Quality
More new
software and
services
Less time
spent fixing
applications
Increased
customer
satisfaction
Improved
Application
Performance
Increase in
customers
Reduction
in I/T
spend
Reduced
Application
Outages
Product
Automation and
Advanced Tools
Agile
Delivery
Improved
Developer
Efficiency
New Software/Services
that would otherwise
not be
possible/explored
Software/Services
made available
across more
platforms
Integration with
Tooling on z/OS, USS,
Windows, Linux
Shift Testing
Left
Continuous
Integration

Technical benefits

4. RDz Quantified Benefits – 3 Categories – (Automation … Advanced … Agile)
RDz/Eclipse
Client
Agile
Development
Automation
Advanced Tooling
RDz
Server

5. Automation … Advanced … Agile
What does RDz automate?
• Application Modernization:
– Web Services/SOA
– IMS SOAP and IMS Web 2.0
– JSON Services for CICS
– Service Flows
– XML Transformation
• DevOps Tooling:
– Continuous Integration
• Code Review
• Code Coverage
• Unit Test – zUnit
 Application Modernization:
 RDz generates application components
 Continuous Integration:
 RDz automation facilities for standard DevOps and
Agile tooling quality processes:
 Batch JCL
 SCM Build Scripts
RDz’s Automation Features
Shift Testing Left
Application Modernization
Less time spent fixing applications
New Software Services
Reduce I/T Spend
Increase in customers

6. Demo
Application Modernization
Code Review/Code Coverage
zUnit

7. Advanced … Agile… Automation
What development/project tasks and techniques does
RDz’s advanced functionality deliver?
• Integrated Program Analytics and Code Understanding
– Procedural Analysis
– Data Analysis
• Interactive Testing/Debug integration with:
– Static Code Analysis
– Data Tooling
• Pattern-based development
• Writing and running Java on z/OS
• External Tooling Integration
• Advanced Coding/Testing
Advanced Coding/Testing:
 Integrated Run/Analyze/Tune SQL –
from within program edit
 SCM Integration
 Integrated tooling:
 File/Database Tools
 Fault Analysis facilities
 Application Performance Analysis tools
 Code Refactoring and Formatting
 Java/Eclipse + ISPF Editors
 Wide range of languages
 Benefits of Eclipse platform
RDz’s Advanced Development Features
Improved Developer Efficiency
Improved Application Quality
Reduced Time-to-Market
Reduced Application Outages
Reduce I/T Spend
Increase in customers

8. Demo
Integrated Static/Dynamic Program
Analysis
Real-Time DB2/SQL Code and Test
Pattern-Based Development

9. Agile… Automation … Advanced
“Agile means more to us than just
advanced functionality and
tooling automation.
We are interested in solutions that
implement Agile processes by
integrating with modern lifecycle
management solutions,
integrating with our z/OS tooling
and being based on the open
Eclipse platform.”
Architect, Fortune 500 Financial Institution
RDz’s Agile/DevOps and z/OS Integration
Shift Testing Left
Continuous Integration
Reduced Time-to-Market
New software services…
More new software and services
Increase in customers

10. Agile Process – RDz + RTC EE
RDz – seamless
integration with
Rational Team Concert
Source
History
Source
Management

11. RTC
Server
RTCWork-item-Requirement
Agile – RDz-constructed artifacts for Continuous Integration
SCM
– Compile
• Compile Results
– Link Edit
• Linkage Results
– Code Review
• Code Review Results
– Code Coverage
• Code Coverage Results
– zUnit
• Unit Test Results
Reports
Dashboards
RDz Client Check-In COBOL or PL/I program
Update RTC Work Item
Build Process
This a working example of “Continuous Integration.” It is available and is a
straight-forward implementation: RDz, RTC and RD&T
RDzCreated
Functionality

12. Fault Analyzer + RDz
Debug Tool + RDz
RDz Integration – IBM Problem Determination Tools
File Manager+ RDz
Application Performance Analyzer + RDz

13. Summary – Quantified Benefits/Improving Time-to-Market
• Source: RDz v7.6 vs. ISPF
Benchmark
– 23 Veteran ISPF programmers
– Benchmark has been repeated
and the benefits validated by:
• Several corporations
• European University
• Benchmark specifics (process,
methodology, scripts) available
upon request

14. When will RDz - and its benefits - become available?
• 13 years ago …. That’s when IBM introduced WSAD (WebSphere Application Developer)
– RDz is not something new & unproven
– There are > 2,000 shops (world-wide) that have deployed RDz
– ~50,000 developers (from ages 20  70) use RDz every day – with the attendant benefits to their
companies

15. How to get started…
Contact:
– Your IBM account team
– This session’s speaker: jsayles@us.ibm.com
– A certified IBM Business Partner
• In APAC:
– ASIST: http://www.asist.be/
– Royal Cyber: http://www.royalcyber.com/
• In Europe:
– ASIST: http://www.asist.be/
– Xact: http://www.xact.dk/
• In Latin, South and North America:
– Royal Cyber: http://www.royalcyber.com/
– Strongback Consulting: http://www.strongbackconsulting.com/w3/

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