The IBM® Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes let you
experience and evaluate the IBM Enterprise Modernization
solutions for the System
z™ and IBM i platforms through hands-on participation, guided walk-thru and usage of live, running System z and IBM i development scenarios and solutions. These are not simulations or canned presentations. You actually log in to a live IBM System z or IBM i mainframe, and follow scripts that allow you to experience first-hand what the IBM Enterprise Modernizations solutions can do for you.
The solutions focus on three key modernization areas:
Applications, People, and Teams. Each solution is based upon a real customer scenario and offers a proven path to get you started with your modernization efforts.
The Sandboxes make it quick, easy and fun to try relevant,
operative scenarios guided by self-paced exercises. You will
see how you can leverage existing applications and skills, and synthesize efforts of multiplatform teams to quickly develop modern applications for System z, IBM i (the IBM Power
Systems platform, including IBM i, AS/400®,
iSeries®, and System i®), and distributed platforms.
Some examples of the hands-on-exercises you can try online:
Discover, analyze, and document business rules from existing applications
Transform 3270 or 5250 screens to modern Web, portal, or mobile interfaces
Create components or service-enable existing COBOL, PL/I, or RPG programs
Rapidly develop multiplatform applications with EGL, IBM’s newest business language
Deploy distributed workloads to host-based virtual servers to reduce total cost-of-ownership (TCO)
Leverage common infrastructure to manage and share host and distributed assets
Automate build and release management for host-based applications
Automate functional and performance testing of host-based applications
and much more…
The Enterprise Modernization sandboxes are specially designed for enterprise architects, application developers, Web developers, test engineers, and deployment architects, but are available to everyone.
Through these online trial sandboxes, IBM provides a mix of full version software trials
and "try online" hosted environments, where you can explore tutorials and get process
guidance. You will also find links to online demos, best practice documentation and
quick-start guides -- all
designed to provide practical application of Enterprise Modernization solutions and accelerate learning.
