Develop, innovate and transform hybrid cloud applications

IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat® CodeReady Workspaces (IBM Wazi Developer) is a productive development environment which fully integrates into any enterprise-wide standard DevOps pipeline and empowers developers by providing a consistent and familiar development experience for IBM z/OS® using three key components.

  • Wazi Code: Edit, build, and debug in your choice of VS Code™, Eclipse®, or Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces IDEs. Cloud based IDE supports both OpenShift® on x86 and OpenShift on Z environments.
  • Wazi Analyze: Understand the impact of potential application changes by discovering the relationships between application components in both x86 and Linux on Z.
  • Wazi Sandbox: Develop and test z/OS application components in a personal, virtual, containerized OpenShift z/OS environment.

Protect and leverage your IBM Z® investments with robust and standard development capabilities that encompass IBM Z and multicloud platforms. Deploy and re-deploy any component in the bundle for added flexibility based on your business needs.

Now available as part of IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack.

Benefits

Hybrid application development

Use IBM Wazi Developer across any cloud or hybrid platform. It is also optimized to run on OpenShift.

Improve developer productivity

Become productive faster, regardless of z/OS and IBM Z familiarity, in a familiar and accessible development environment.

Increase speed and agility

Enable true parallel development in a containerized personal sandbox with a full-fledged z/OS environment.

Reduces risk

Heighten application understanding and help assess the impact of code changes before any changes are made using visual insights on application inter-dependencies

No vendor lock-in

Integrate IBM Wazi Developer seamlessly into a standard, Git-based open tool chain to deliver CI/CD.

Flexible deployment

Rebalance component entitlement over time based on your business needs.

IBM Wazi Developer key features

  • Support for bring your own IDE
  • Personal z/OS sandbox environment on Red Hat OpenShift
  • Modern editing experience for COBOL, Java™, PL/1, REXX, and Assembler
  • Integrated debugger with IBM Debug for z/OS
  • Intelligent build capability with IBM Dependency Based Build
  • Graphical, web-based discovery and analysis of application components and their relationships
  • Provides analysis of Java applications
  • Integration with a standard, enterprise-wide CI/CD pipeline

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“ Cloud native technologies are the new normal for application development and with IBM Wazi for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces that now includes z/OS development. ”

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