Today, the mainframe has new life as a hardware platform. It is being used for core business processing of existing large, enterprise applications, and its role is extending to become the backbone of an SOA environment.
IBM® provides today's developer application lifecycle tools for both these environments allowing practitioners to leverage existing skills to more easily develop and maintain traditional screen-based applications and develop new Java™ and component-based applications that incorporate reuse of existing assets in an SOA environment.
Find the resources you need to get started in the Did you say mainframe? e-kit. This collection -- from webcasts and podcasts to tutorials and demos -- makes it easier to apply Web technologies to
your mainframe applications.
Modernize and add functionality and performance to existing mainframe applications.
Deploy your new Java, Web services, and SOA applications on the powerful, scalable, flexible, and efficient mainframe hardware platform.
Optimize system operations practices to get the most out of your infrastructure.
