Evaluate this entry point online, without installing or configuring it on your own system.
When you register for this entry point, you can access IBM® Rational® Developer for System z™, Information Management System (IMS™) SOAP Gateway, IBM Rational Business Developer, and IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms (HATS), all installed into an online environment. You also have access to a test mainframe environment that lets you quickly deploy and test the scenarios.
Note: When you start any of the online trials in the System z Sandbox, you will have three hours to explore the products and exercises within the Sandbox. If you exit one entry point and begin another, you have whatever time remains of the original three hours to explore successive trials. To continue working beyond the end of a four-hour session, save your materials and register to begin the trial again. You will need to refresh your desktop and other settings when the trial reopens to continue where you left off.
The online trial experience allows you to try software products without having to install them on your
own system. This is product-level code, with all features and options enabled.
Client software
The online trial program uses the Citrix Access Platform to provide you a connection
from your workstation to a remote IBM server running the IBM product you are evaluating.
You will need to download Citrix client software before using the online trial program.
You can download the Citrix XenApp client (formerly known as the MetaFrame Presentation Server) at no charge from the Citrix site. Versions for most operating systems are available. After you install the client,
you will be asked to restart your browser. If you do not have the Citrix client installed when you attempt to access the online trial, you will be prompted to install the client.
Supported browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer V6 or later and Mozilla Firefox V1.5 or later are
supported.
Connection speed
We recommend that you use a high-speed connection while evaluating software online. Because the session you will be using is running remotely over the Internet with unpredictable delays and latencies, you should not use your experience with the session as a guide to the performance of the tools when installed in a local environment.
Connectivity FAQs
Having problems getting connected? Check our connectivity FAQs for solutions to common problems. Or, visit our connectivity forum to submit technical questions about using online trials.
The Enterprise Modernization Sandbox trial environment for the Architecture entry point includes IBM Rational Developer for System z, Information Management System (IMS) SOAP Gateway, IBM Rational Business Developer, and IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services for Multiplatforms (HATS). The tutorial and articles below provide short exercises you can walk through to try out these products.
Use IBM Rational Business Developer wizards to create a Web application: In 45 minutes, learn how to create, deploy, and test fully functional JavaServer™ Faces- (JSF-) based Web applications using EGL, a simple platform-neutral business language that hides underlying technical complexity and lets you focus on the business problem at hand.
Explore local IBM z/OS application development with Rational Developer for System z: Spend about 45 minutes to get familiar with the z/OS Application Development environment for local systems by working with a sample COBOL program that accesses an IBM DB2® database and using the editing, compiling, and debugging capabilities of Rational Developer for System z.
Enable an IMS application as a Web service running in IMS SOAP Gateway on Microsoft Windows: Take 45 minutes to learn how to integrate your IMS and COBOL programs in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment. This tutorial takes you through a series of intensive hands-on exercises designed to transform an IMS application to a Web service using Rational Developer for System z and IMS SOAP Gateway.
Create a J2C application for an Information Management
System phonebook transaction using IMS TM Resource Adapter: Take 45 minutes to learn
how to use the J2EE Connector (J2C) component of the IBM
Rational Developer for System z Version 7.1.1.1, and IBM IMS
TM Resource Adapter Version 10 to access IMS transactions through a J2C Java bean. Once a J2C bean is created, it can easily be consumed by a Web application (JavaServer Pages component, or JSP), Web service, or Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component.
Want more? Click the Support tab for additional resources designed to help you explore this entry point.
