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What's new: Rational Developer for Power

David Dykstal (david_dykstal@us.ibm.com), Software Architect, IBM

Dave is an architect for Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, with a concentration on the IBM i. He has worked with IBM for more than 36 years and has been on the development teams for the System/38, AS/400, iSeries, and IBM i, as well as products for IBM System z and its client software. His technical interests encompass programming languages, object-oriented programming, user interfaces, databases, abstraction, and techniques for writing clean code.

Summary: Find out what's new in the various versions of IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™, which provides integrated analysis, development, and debugging tools for IBM AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems.

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Date: 10 Dec 2012 (Published 17 Jan 2012)
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Rational Developer for Power Systems Software version 8.5

IBM recently released Version 8.5 of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, which provides integrated analysis, development, and debugging tools for IBM i, IBM AIX, and Linux operating systems. This article describes the significant changes in the 8.5 release.

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software version 8.03

Although version 8.0.3 of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software is a service release, it contains some significant new functions, which the developer describes in this article.

Rational Developer for Power Systems Software version 7.5

Find out what's new in version 7.5 of IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™. This article also provides an overview of the basic functions. This is the follow-on product for IBM® Rational® Developer for IBM® i software

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IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems Software provides integrated development environments for the major development workloads on IBM i, IBM AIX, and Linux, including Java, C/C++ on AIX and Linux, COBOL on AIX, and RPG, COBOL, C, and C++ on IBM i. To learn more, start with the developerWorks page, and then review the Rational Developer for Power Systems Software product information, features and benefits page, as well as the product line overview. For support or documentation, see the Rational Developer for Power Systems Software Information Center.
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