The following new functions were added for Rational® Developer for System z® Release 7.5:
Application Deployment Manager
The Application
Deployment Manager contains the following new features:
- CICS® TS Explorer for viewing
and managing CICS resources.
- A completely new Resource Definition editor UI replaces the CICS Interactive UI (CRD editor).
The new Resource Definition editor is used to define multiple CICS resource definitions in a
single manifest. The resource definitions contained in the manifest
may then be installed immediately, or exported for later processing
by a system programmer.
- A new system programmer administrative utility is used to define CICS resource definition default
values and update permissions.
BMS Editor
The BMS Editor contains the following
new feature:
- The ability to associate comments to a BMS Field element and to
auto-generate comments into the copybook has been added to the BMS
Editor.
Debugger
The following feature is available
with Debug Tool V8.1 after you apply the PTF for APAR PK53826:
- You can now specify the IPv6 format for TCP/IP addresses.
The following features are available with Debug Tool V8.1:
- Debug Tool now supports only single socket connection types with
the compiled language debugger. The VADTCPIP& and TCPIP& suboptions
of the TEST runtime option will both start single socket connections.
- Debug Tool has added an option called CODEPAGE to the EQAOPTS
options file for specifying a code page to use during a debugging
session. This new option helps you to specify a code page for full
screen mode and remote debug mode.
- The default port has been changed to 8001.
- You can now enter the SET DEFAULT LISTINGS command through the
debug console of the compiled language debugger.
- You can now use a preferences file, global preferences file, and
commands file in remote debug mode.
- The remote debugger's interface has been enhanced so that you
can filter variables. See the remote debugger's online help for a
description of this improvement.
Enterprise Service Tools EST-XSE
Enterprise
Service Tools contain the following new features:
File Manager
Rational Developer for System z File Manager now provides a template
editor that offers functionality for generating templates based upon
a COBOL copybook or PL/I include. The template editor also provides
functions for creating dynamic templates as well as editing template
information. This enables Rational Developer
File Manager users to have additional control over formatting and
filtering criteria that can be used when editing data sets in the
Formatted Data Editor.
The Find/Replace function has been improved
to now locate/replace results anywhere within the current data set.
When performing a search, Find/Replace first searches through the
current data window until it reaches the last record in the window.
When the search reaches the end of the current window, users are given
the option to continue searching outside of the current window and
into the remaining portion of the data set.
Rational Developer for System z File Manager version 7.5 also features:
- Support for connecting to an IBM File
Manager server instead of running IBM File
Manager in batch. This allows the user to minimize the number of initiators
needed for their Rational Developer
File Manager edit sessions.
- IPv6 support for File Manager connections.
zAPG
zAPG contains the following new features:
- UML-to-COBOL processing that helps the modeling of data structures
and programs and then subsequently, the generation of COBOL source
code using these models. This modeling-to-development processing uses
both the Rational Software
Architect and Rational Developer
for System z platforms.
An Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) representation of the RSA generated
model can be exported and then imported into Developer for System z to generate COBOL.
- It is now possible to create new COBOL programs that perform I/O
to VSAM and/or QSAM files using the new VSAM/QSAM Wizard. The generated
programs provide a good basis for developing applications that access
VSAM and QSAM data sets; in nearly all cases some modification is
necessary.
New extension: Rational Developer
for System z provides an
extension installed with Rational Software
Architect that enables the functionality of modeling COBOL. To use
the functionality, download and install the "UML Profiles for COBOL
Development" extension. For further instruction and information,
see the RSA documentation.
zIDE
zIDE contains the following new features:
- Content-assist for COBOL based on an associated symbol table (AST).
The AST represents the COBOL source as a tree structure. This content-assist
supports embedded languages including SQL and CICS. This feature also provides support for
copybook.
- The Advanced COBOL Editor has been enhanced to do the following:
- Real-time syntax checking with limited semantic checking; for
example, unresolved references.
- An "Open Declaration" action that helps navigation from a reference
to a data item, section, or paragraph to its corresponding declaration.
- An "Open Perform Hierarchy" action that presents a view for navigating
a perform hierarchy for a given paragraph or section.
- A "Rename" refactoring that operates on data items, paragraphs,
and sections.
- A "Remove Noise Words" refactoring that removes unnecessary noise
words from the source.
- Single-process RSE server in which one server serves multiple
clients and multiple servers are maintained for workload balancing.
This change to the RSE server enhances scalability and start-up performance.
- Unified project development model to provide seamless online-offline
project behavior, to allow for better integration of projects with
source code management programs such as ClearCase®, SCLM, and CARMA, and to allow
closer integration between the zIDE project model and other Rational Developer for System z components, such as
EST and zAPG.
- Provision of a more flexible build properties framework to allow
users to create and maintain new properties and property sets. With
the introduction of property sets, users can define and save multiple
build configurations for a project, subproject, or file and decide
at the time of the build which set of properties to use. This framework
also makes it easier for users to save and share property sets.
- Enhancements to the System
z LPEX Editor, including the display of a visual indicator for
the editor margin area, ability to edit hex values in remote files,
and support for ISPF commands.
- Enhancements to the zIDE user interface, including the ability
to merge file differences between the local and remote systems in
the Compare view and the ability to sort the z/OS File System Mapping view.
- Enhancements to the zIDE Remote Resource Access API to allow for
setting file system mappings for remote resources, marking resources
as read-only, and better integration with SCLM and CARMA.
- The Menu Manager has been enhanced to simplify creation of menu
actions and their association with various zIDE views.