Today millions of lines of RPG application code are running critical business functions on AS/400, iSeries, and System i servers. While this code works perfectly well and is a source of competitive advantage, it also hinders innovation.
Outdated and incomplete documentation, inefficient tools, and skills gaps limit your ability to support new capabilities that users have come to expect.
One of the important decisions you are facing is when and how to modernize your i5/OS applications to provide improved user interfaces and integration with new technologies, such as Web and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
The IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment (the IBM Power Systems platform, including IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, and System i) is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them.
The five modernization focus areas you can explore through this sandbox are:
Architectures: Avoid costly and high risk rip and replace approaches by transforming core systems. Accelerate the adoption of SOA by rendering existing IT assets as services or components – encouraging reuse and efficiency.
Assets:
Save time and money by reusing proven application assets. Discover, transform, reuse and manage applications assets from mainframe and distributed systems across the enterprise.
Coming soon!
Skills:
Increase productivity and break skill silos by simplifying development environment. Leverage IBM’s newest business language, EGL, to achieve new levels of business value and innovation.
Coming soon!
Processes and infrastructures:
Improve efficiency and lower costs by consolidating processes, tools, and infrastructures. Automate application quality, change and release processes to help manage and enforce consistent development lifecycle across your enterprise.
Coming soon!
Investments:
Redirect IT staff and budgets to pursue new opportunities. Adopt an integrated, open, modular development platform to modernize and optimize application delivery across the enterprise.
