Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction

Accelerate the modernization of traditional IBM i applications for SOA and the web

This product contains Rational Business Developer, Host Access Transformation Services, and Rational Developer for Power Systems - RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i.

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction enables you to build innovative rich Web 2.0 applications, and user interfaces (UI), so you can link to the backend RPG, COBOL, and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) business applications.

  • Deliver more projects, faster: Allows you to focus on solving business problems and enables you to modernize and extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications. Accelerate in-house development of web and SOA solutions.
  • Modernize applications: Easily extend existing RPG and COBOL business applications to the web and mobile devices, or into web services. Quickly transform text-based terminal applications to intuitive web, portlet, rich client or mobile device UIs.
  • Improve developer productivity: Realize productivity gains by moving from older text-based, command-line development tools, to an integrated development environment.
  • Lower development and training costs: Leverage a modern integrated development environment to attract and retain new talent, many of whom are familiar with Eclipse tools, thereby helping to lower training costs.
  • Reuse and extend IT assets: Make developers portable across multiple projects and a variety of programming languages and target platforms.
  • Lean collaborative lifecycle management: Seamless integration with Rational Team Concert enables source control, build automation, and collaborative application lifecycle management (CALM) of software projects.
  • What’s new in Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction, V8.0.3 including the latest development tools to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on IBM i.
  • Operating systems supported: Windows family

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Client system requirements
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with SP 2 or later

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with SP 1 or later

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP 1 or later

Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 or later

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate		 One of the following Web browsers to view the readme files and the installation guide, and to support the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) browser widget:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1, or later
  • Firefox 2.0 or later


Viewing multimedia user assistance, such as tours, tutorials, and demonstration viewlets requires Adobe Flash Player, Version 6.0 release 65, or later.

To enable users who do not have administrator privileges to work with IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software on a Windows Vista system, do not install Eclipse inside the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).		 Intel(R) 1GHz processor minimum (higher is recommended)

1 GB RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended

Minimum: 1 GB of disk space is required for product package installation. Additional disk space is required for the resources that you develop.

  • Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.
  • Additional disk space is required if you download the product package to install this product.
  • An additional 500 MB of disk space is required in the directory pointed to by your environment variable TEMP.


1024 x 768 resolution minimum using 256 colors (or higher for best results).

Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device.

Server system requirements
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
i5/OS® V5R4

IBM i 6.1

IBM i 7.1		 Supported compilers:




  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i V5R4 (5722-WDS)

  • WebSphere Development Studio for System i 6.1 (5761-WDS)

  • Rational Development Studio for i 7.1 (5770-WDS)




Option 60 of WebSphere Development Studio / Rational Development Studio is required for debugging applications using the integrated i debugger.

Program temporary fixes (PTFs) information - Some components need additional PTFs that are available at:
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/
Overview/Software/Rational/
Rational_Developer_for_Power_Systems_Software/

More information about any required IBM i server PTFs - Can be found by:



  • Opening the Remote System Explorer perspective if it is not already open. The name of the current perspective is shown in the top left corner of the title bar for the Window.
    To open the Remote Systems Explorer perspective select Window >
    Open Perspective > Other and select Remote System Explorer from
    the list.

  • Creating a connection to your IBM i by expanding New Connection and double-clicking on IBM i.

  • Expanding your new connection and right click on Objects.

  • Selecting Verify Connection from the menu.
    This displays a dialog that shows which required PTFs are already installed on the systemand which ones are missing.


Operating systemSoftwareHardware
Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise, Vista (Business, Enterprise, Ultimate editions), Windows 2008 Standard or Enterprise, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 ( Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation or Desktop V4.0 or V5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server V9 or V10		 Java SDK 6.0 (included)

Supported databases:
  • IBM DB2® V9 and later
  • IBM DB2 for z/OS V8 and later
  • IBM DB2 for z/VSE V7.3 and later
  • IBM DB2 on IBM i® V5.4 and later
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005
  • Oracle® V10.2 and later
  • IDS V11 and later

  • Derby 10 and later


IBM CICS Transaction Gateway V7.1 (included) and later is required for remote calls to CICS		 Processor: Intel Pentium III 800 MHz minimum
Memory: Memory: 2GB RAM minimum, 3GB recommended
Disk space: Minimum 1 GB of disk space is required for product package installation. Additional disk space is required for the resources that you develop. Note: Disk space requirements can be reduced or increased depending on the features that you install.
Display: 1024X768 minimum, 1280X1024 recommended


Generated Java
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
IBM i V5.4 and later

Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2008, or Windows Vista

Linux (Red Hat 3, or higher, SUSE 9)

HP Unix 11iv2

Solaris 9 and later		 Java/JRE 5.0 (or 1.5) or later is required in all supported environments

Web applications require WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and later, Apache Tomcat 6.0 and later, or the IBM i Integrated Application Server.


Generated COBOL
Operating systemSoftwareHardware
IBM i V5.4 and later EGL COBOL Runtime (QEGL library included with Rational Business Developer)


Generated JavaScript
Operating systemSoftwareHardware

  • Firefox 3.0 and later
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later (version 8.0 or later recommended)
  • Safari 4 & 5
  • Google Chrome

System requirements

Below is the summary of software and hardware required for IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services, Version 8.0. For more details, see Supported Platform Details.


HATS Server requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
IBM i HATS enterprise applications deployed to a WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Portal Server inherit the software requirements of the server. HATS enterprise applications deployed to a WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Portal Server inherit the hardware requirements of the server

For more details on HATS Server requirements, see Supported Platform Details.


HATS Toolkit requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Microsoft Windows® IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction Intel Pentium III 800 MHz processor minimum (Higher is recommended)

1 GB RAM minimum (2 GB RAM is recommended)

Disk space: 500 MB DASD above what the requisite software delivery platform requires

Additional disk space will be required for Web or rich client application resources developed

Display resolution: 1024 x 768 or higher

HATS Rich Client Platform requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Microsoft Windows® Java™

IBM Lotus Notes Client

For IBM Lotus Expeditor deployments:

For runtime: IBM Lotus Expeditor Client for Desktop

For development: IBM Lotus Expeditor Toolkit, and IBM Lotus Expeditor Client for Desktop (if you want a test environment)

For runtime and development: IBM Lotus Expeditor Device Runtime Environment (DRE)

For Eclipse deployments, Eclipse with EMF/SDO

HATS Supported Browsers
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
iOS Safari
Microsoft Windows® Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera
Windows Mobile Internet Explorer Mobile

WebFacing Tool requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Microsoft Windows® Development of WebFacing applications requires a supported HATS Toolkit environment plus one of the following:

IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems

For information on Portal development and WebFacing runtime and browser requirements, please refer to:

WebFacing application software requirements		 Intel Pentium III 800 MHz processor minimum (Higher is recommended)

1 GB RAM minimum (2 GB RAM is recommended)

Disk space: 500 MB DASD above what the requisite software delivery platform requires

Additional disk space will be required for Web or rich client application resources developed

Display resolution: 1024 x 768 or higher

Application Lifecycle Management

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