Rational Power Appliance

IBM Rational Power Appliance is a workload optimized system for AIX application development on IBM Power Systems. Rational Power Appliance includes a Power Express server preinstalled with a comprehensive set of Rational development software along with the AIX operating system.

This complete and comprehensive recommended solution is easy to order and easy to deploy. Offered in three validated solutions – Express, Workgroup, Enterprise, you have the flexibility to choose the right sized solution for your application development environment.

All three solutions of Rational Power Appliance includes:

The Power Express server is a high-performance, energy efficient, reliable, and secure infrastructure and application server in a dense form factor. As a high-performance infrastructure or application server, the Power Express server contains innovative workload-optimizing technologies that maximize performance based on client computing needs and Intelligent Energy features that help maximizes performance and optimize energy efficiency resulting in one of the most cost-efficient solutions for UNIX deployments. Read more.

With proven scalability, advanced virtualization, security, manageability and reliability features, the AIX OS is an excellent choice for building an IT infrastructure. AIX is the only operating system that leverages decades of IBM technology innovation designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability of any UNIX operating system. Read more.

IBM Rational® Team Concert™ is a complete agile collaborative development environment providing agile planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health, along with integrated reporting and process support. It connects dispersed development teams to increase individual and team productivity, compress development cycles, and rapidly deliver high-quality software. Rational Team Concert provides a Team Server and build system toolkit that run on AIX, and a client for Rational Developer for Power. Rational Team Concert delivers dramatic new value with global enterprise readiness, and collaborative application lifecycle management.

Rational Team Concert seamlessly integrates with Rational Developer for Power. This provides full support for the Power platform developer for such tasks as source control and build automation. Read more.

IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ provides integrated development and debug tools for AIX.

Rational Developer for Power helps developers create and maintain AIX applications with rich source editing features, integrated search and compile / build error feedback and remote debugging based on Eclipse.

Rational offers Eclipse-based integrated development environments for many different platforms and programming languages. Many of these offerings can be installed into the same workbench so Rational Developer for Power Systems Software provides the latest advancements in development tools for developers creating and maintaining C/C++ and COBOL based applications for AIX. Read more.

IBM XL C/C++ for AIX is designed to optimize and tune your applications for execution on IBM Power platforms, to help you unleash the full power of your IT investment, to create and maintain critical business and scientific applications, to maximize application performance, and to improve developer productivity. The performance gain from years of compiler optimization experience is seen in the continuous release-to-release compiler improvements including full exploitation of the latest IBM POWER7 processor. Read more.

COBOL for AIX is a productive and powerful development environment for building COBOL applications. It allows you to use your existing COBOL code to upgrade your applications with the newest technologies.

The goal of COBOL for AIX is to enable developers to leverage over three decades' worth of applications in new endeavors. It delivers needed COBOL function to continue integration of COBOL and Web-oriented business processes. Read more.

The above system requirements for the RTC Client software are a general guide only. For the detailed client software requirements, please read this article (link resides outside of ibm.com).