Compuware is looking to help ease the application
development and maintenance burden mainframe shops face by delivering a new
suite of intuitive development tools.
The company's Compuware Workbench, announced July 20, is
an Eclipse-based "development environment for managing mainframe
application development." The workbench features a GUI and tools such as a
source code editor, data set administration utilities, job submission and
review, and mainframe fault diagnosis.
"IT organizations are constantly faced with two
challenges—delivering on their commitments to the business while, at the same
time, holding down costs," Rose Rowe, vice president of mainframe strategy
at Compuware, said in a statement. "By increasing productivity, IT
organizations can address both of these demands. They can deliver
revenue-generating projects on time and meet their service-level agreements without
having to add headcount."
"Workers who chose IT as a profession during the
past 20 years have completely different sets of skills, and use different
languages and application architectures," Dale Vecchio, an analyst with
Gartner, said in a statement. "Consequently, the pending retirement of the
baby boomer generation will have a significant impact on continuing to operate
many of the legacy systems that focus on running the business."
Compuware's announcement continued:
"As the baby
boomer generation looks ahead to retirement, IT organizations face the
recruiting and training of potential new programmers. The next generation of
programmers, who grew up with digital technologies, have not had experience
with the traditional "green screen" (TSO/ISPF) interface. This means that these new
programmers would not only have to be trained to understand the applications
they will support, but would also be faced with having to learn to support
these applications in an outdated character-based development environment. Providing
them with this modernized, point-and-click option significantly reduces the
time associated with what would otherwise be a costly learning curve.
Compuware continues
to enable and support the needs of IT's more experienced developers by offering
the choice of either a green screen or GUI environment, giving them the option
of using whichever platform best suits their individual needs.
The initial release
of the Compuware Workbench is scheduled for August of this year. Learn more
about the Compuware Workbench at
http://www.compuware.com/mainframeinnovations/."
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