Software Announcement February 20, 2001 IBM VisualAge Pacbase Version 3.0 Delivers a Remodeled Environment for e-business Overview Using VisualAge Pacbase, organizations will: At a Glance VisualAge Pacbase is a • repository-based application Progressively move to the most VisualAge Pacbase offers: advanced technologies and development (AD) offering designed • for enterprise-wide scalability, extend existing assets to the Life-cycle coverage of AD needs reliability, and performance. world of e-business from analysis and design to production of all types of B2B, • Benefit from a multiplatform VisualAge Pacbase Version 3.0 B2C, and B2E applications that approach to ensure portability offers extended capabilities: are portable on IBM and and scalability of applications non-IBM platforms • The e-business information model while protecting previous IT has been restructured to facilitate investments • Model-driven development and visual programming to improve the implementation of new • Take advantage of a powerful and technologies. productivity and enable secure industrial-strength developers to focus on business • The new Developer Workbench solution to bring enterprise level issues provides a single user-friendly computing to their application Java -based interface to drive environment • Reusability of components traditional and e-business during the development process development. Key Prerequisites and consistency during the life-cycle of applications • The coverage of e-business needs • Server is improved through additional • Ability to extend legacy capabilities such as integration of − Mainframe: MVS or applications to the world of existing COBOL applications, OS/390 CICS , MVS or e-business, and create low-cost server components testing, and OS/390 IMS , IBM VSE/CICS; Web-enabled systems support for Enterprise JavaBean Bull GCOS7, GCOS8; Unisys 2200 series For ordering, contact: (EJB) session components. Your IBM representative, an IBM Business • The UML methodology is − UNIX : AIX ; Bull Escala Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at supported via the interface with AIX; HP-UX; Compaq TRU64 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 the Rational Rose environment. UNIX, Sun Solaris • An independent administration − PC: Windows NT , space including a Java-based Windows 2000, Linux workstation simplifies the • Workstations running on Windows administration tasks related to the development environment. Planned Availability Dates VisualAge Pacbase is part of the IBM • February 23, 2001: with MVS or application framework for e-business OS/390 CICS, AIX, Bull Escala designed to help organizations move AIX, Compaq TRU64 UNIX, HP-UX, to e-business. VisualAge Pacbase Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, combines technological innovation or Windows 2000 as development with a standards-based approach to environment. give you a long term solution. • September 28, 2001: with MVS VisualAge Pacbase covers the life or OS/390 IMS, VSE/CICS, Bull cycle of applications, capitalizes GCOS7, Bull GCOS8, or Unisys corporate know-how, and supports a 2200 series as development wide range of heterogeneous environment. platforms. VisualAge Pacbase combines powerful server development capabilities with the unique advantages offered by VisualAge for Java for producing reliable e-business applications that evolve. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 201-038 characteristics and ensures quality applications Description produced automatically by the VisualAge Pacbase generators. Analysis and Design Facility VisualAge Pacbase implements a visual programming approach in order to improve productivity and ease • Methodology of choice learning. The Developer Workbench takes advantage of the SmartGuides technology to enable users to VisualAge Pacbase offers methodological openness interact with their tool through a guided and contextual and supports a variety of methodologies including dialogue. Unified Modeling Language (UML), industry-specific frameworks such as the IBM Information Framework • Integration of existing assets (IFW), and can be customized to integrate company-specific methodologies. VisualAge Pacbase ensures a smooth transition to e-business so that organizations continue to get a • Coverage of analysis and design needs good return on investments in existing systems while gradually introducing new technologies to VisualAge Pacbase offers powerful information development teams. management capabilities to help capitalize and enrich corporate AD know-how. It ensures the flexibility that Organizations have the freedom to leverage analysis and design teams want, and provides applications components and skills. Existing COBOL consistency and validity of specifications, reusability, programs can be integrated with the new architectures and quality of information throughout the application for producing new server-based e-business systems. development life cycle. In addition, development teams can use the more technical developers for building JavaBeans and other Pacdesign is the VisualAge Pacbase analysis and developers for assembling these components. design component for supporting the YSM, Merise, SSADM, and OMT methodologies. Pacdesign is also • Consistent development available in Bank/Finance edition for supporting IFW models. VisualAge Pacbase provides the consistency required to achieve high-quality applications and to improve UML support is offered via the bridge with Rational development productivity. Rose environment. Rational Rose provides extensive support for requirements, analysis, and design activity. VisualAge Pacbase generates a proxy object as a The UML models defined in Rational Rose are JavaBean or EJB to provide developers the view of the converted into VisualAge Pacbase design models. server they need. This proxy object facilitates client These design models populate the VisualAge Pacbase construction by enabling the direct access and use of central repository and can be directly reused during data, services, and events available on the server. It the production phases. improves development reliability by enabling automatic reuse of information defined in the central repository. It simplifies development by hiding e-business Build Facility complex mechanisms associated with client and server exchanges. VisualAge Pacbase offers complete support for industrializing the production of client/server and All components are managed around the central e-business applications. It provides: VisualAge Pacbase repository and benefit from key advantages such as impact analysis capabilities. Each • Model-driven development time you reuse an object throughout the life cycle of • A single Java-based Developer Workbench to cover applications, including during maintenance, you are server and client development, and middleware ensured of its quality. This efficient reuse of consistent management objects is a vital element of application development industrialization. • A central repository to energize all phases of development including project management and • Ability to generate for multiple IBM and non-IBM quality assurance platforms VisualAge Pacbase includes VisualAge for Java VisualAge Pacbase improves portability of applications technology and takes advantage of up-to-date due to independence from any specific environment. technologies such as Java applets, servlets, and EJBs. In COBOL backend servers and the code necessary to addition, VisualAge Pacbase remains open to third-party use standard middleware can be generated for the tools and provides a COM module to address client following platforms: development with a COM-compliant tool. − IBM MVS or OS/390/CICS server via CPI-C, ECI, • Simplified development EXCI, MQSeries , or TCP-IP VisualAge Pacbase offers a high level of expression Databases supported: Adabas, DB2 , DL/1, IDMS, that closely models actual business processes so that and Oracle. developers can focus on solving business issues rather than technical issues. − IBM MVS or OS/390/IMS server via CPI-C, MQSeries or TCP-IP VisualAge Pacbase provides an information model dedicated to e-business needs and integrated in the Databases supported: DB2, and DL/1. development cycle. This e-business information model gives a clear dispatching and structuring of the data − IBM VSE/CICS server via CPI-C or ECI necessary for development and formalizes the description of application components. It allows Databases supported: DB2, DL/1, SQL/DS , and development teams to focus on functional Oracle. 201-038 -2- − Unisys 2200 series server via TCIS − IBM AIX server via ECI, MQSeries, TCP-IP or Tuxedo Databases supported: Oracle, RDMS, and Sybase. Databases supported: DB2, Oracle, and Sybase. − Unisys A series server via COMS − IBM Numa-Q DYNIX server via TCP-IP or Tuxedo Databases supported: DMSII, Oracle, and Sybase. Databases supported: Oracle and Sybase. Traditional Build Facility − IBM OS/400 server via TCP-IP • Complete support for traditional application Databases supported: DB2. development needs VisualAge Pacbase provides genuine support for − Bull GCOS7/TDS server via CPI-C development and automates the production of Databases supported: IDS2, Interel/RFM, and complete applications. The resulting applications can Oracle. evolve rapidly without putting previous investments at risk. − Bull GCOS8/TP8 or DMIV-TP