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Data Sheet
Application Modernization and Connectivity
Enterprise Developer
Micro Focus Enterprise Developer provides rapid development and modernization of z Systems
applications. It enables organizations to understand, develop, verify, and deploy application change
within mainframe systems or onto alternative server environments on premise or in the cloud. The
Enterprise Developer environment helps organizations address mainframe skills concerns, remove
deployment pipeline bottlenecks, enable DevOps practices and provide a unified environment to
support improvements in quality, integration and modernization. Micro Focus has over 40 years’
experience in enabling the enterprise to achieve its business goals by providing a modernization
and digital transformation strategy designed for IBM z.
Business Challenge Quality: Demand to shift left and enable early Quick View
For many organizations, the new digital econ detection of issues during the software devel
■ Increase efficiency by up to 40%
omy is shaping future business and IT strat opment process.
■ Find and fix quality issues faster
egy. In order to compete and win in this digital
age, where time to market is paramount, IT Skills: Recruiting and onboarding the right ■ Modernize mainframe applications and
teams must remove cultural barriers and work skills for today’s IT estate must align to future re-purpose business processes
together, embrace new agile approaches to business strategy. ■ Deliver new releases faster using Agile
software delivery that incorporate customer and DevOps practices
feedback along each step of the journey. Digiti Resource: Managing complex application re ■ Speed up developer adoption
zation is driving accelerated change across the leases, across cross-functional development
■ Reduce mainframe costs and reliance
business. IT teams play a pivotal role in helping teams requires teams to collaborate using dif
the business meet this challenge and achieve ferent tools and practices. ■ Address mainframe skills concerns
their objectives.
Process: Software delivery practices have
Additionally, a shifting landscape of new tech evolved to support a more iterative, collabora
nologies, containers, the cloud, compliance tive and frequent release cycle—mainframe
demands, and new ways of working make IT development needs to keep pace.
provision a constant challenge, especially in
the face of greater client expectation and con Integration: Enterprise IT systems no longer
tinued cost pressures. consist of only mainframe components but
now include composite applications that re
IT teams must balance the essential work of side on the mainframe, distributed, virtual and
‘keeping the lights on’ and enabling faster inno cloud environments.
vation to improve corporate performance. This
often means tackling a variety of challenges. Modernization: Ensuring that core applica
tions and data are accessible through any web
Efficiency: Development output needs to or mobile device and adaptable to evolving IT
accelerate and meet the speed of business trends and technologies.
change.
Data Sheet
Enterprise Developer
How Micro Focus Enterprise Find and fix quality issues faster: Shift left by a collaborative and modern development en
Developer Can Help ensuring application quality through a full func vironment built around Eclipse or Visual Studio.
Enterprise Developer provides a simple and tion unit test environment where developers Recent graduates or developers new to work
proven approach to modernize mainframe ap can thoroughly validate code changes without ing with COBOL can quickly and easily adapt to
plications and processes. It provides modern resource conflict or reliance on the mainframe. the language and get up to speed faster.
and powerful development tools in an integrated Powerful debugging and diagnostics ensure
development environment (IDE) for both Eclipse that stubborn runtime issues can be found and Flexibility: Enterprise Developer can be de
and Microsoft Visual Studio. Using Enterprise resolved quickly. Advanced diagnostics tools, ployed onto an on-premise Windows environ
Developer organizations can develop and test available for RHEL and SUSE Intel platforms, in ment, in a virtual machine instance, via Citrix or
application both on and off the mainframe using clude patented reversible debugging aids for into the cloud giving you the flexibility to sup
fast issue discovery and resolution. port different development teams, in house,
a common toolset regardless of where applica
tion is deployed—on the mainframe, on distrib near shore and offshore.
Modernize mainframe applications: To en
uted platforms, or into the cloud.
sure critical business functions and the value
Key Features
they provide can be reused and enhanced
Enterprise Developer supports COBOL, PL/I, IBM Powerful integrated development environ
Enterprise Developer includes tools to allow
Assembler, CICS, IMS-TM, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB, z/ ment: A complete mainframe application mod
you to easily extract application code into
OS file formats and the common batch utilities, erniz ation, development, and maintenance
re-usable components, to service enable ap
including SORT. As a result of this compatibility, env ironment available for leading industry
plications through REST APIs, to integrate into
developers have the choice from a single IDE to standard Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse
.NET or on the JVM, and to deploy into the
develop directly on the mainframe and to move based IDEs.
cloud or containers.
analysis, edit, compile, and debug tasks: all nec
essary to maintain and improve core online and Full application development lifecycle sup
Deliver new releases faster using Agile and
batch applications, to a Windows environment port on the desktop: From initial application
DevOps practices: Teams looking to adopt
on-premises, or in the cloud. design through analysis, development, com
modern software delivery practices such as
pilation, unit testing and debugging. Support
Agile or Scrum as part of a DevOps initiative
Enterprise Developer is part of the Micro Focus for COBOL and PL/I includes:
can integrate Enterprise Developer into exist
Enterprise Suite—a comprehensive and inte ■ Advanced editor capabilities such as
ing toolchains and processes to foster a cul
grated toolset designed to help IT teams instant feedback on syntax errors,
ture of collaboration between development
through their mainframe modernization jour content assist, syntax colorization and
and testing teams across the business.
ney. It includes Enterprise Analyzer, Enterprise outline view, for faster source navigation
Developer, Enterprise Test Server, Enterprise Reduce mainframe costs and reliance: The to enable developers to quickly and
Server and Enterprise Server for .NET. This so Windows based Enterprise Developer toolset securely execute changes in mainframe
lution enables customers to fully understand enables developers to spend as much as 90% applications.
their application inventory, adopt Enterprise of their time away from the mainframe, realizing ■ Instantaneous code compilation offers
DevOps practices to streamline the develop significant cost savings with no wait times or considerable time savings, as compiles
ment, configuration management and testing resource contention. happen on the local workstation. Close
of mainframe applications, and enable greater
integration with the editor means faster
choice and flexibility for the deployment of main Speed up developer adoption: Through easy error resolution.
frame application workload to new platforms. customization, integrating modern develop
■ Improved testing through sophisticated
ment tooling directly into mainframe source
Key Benefits management systems and familiar processes visual debugging of mainframe applications
Increase efficiency by up to 40%: Dramatically eases the transition to a new development for full control during test execution
increase the speed of development and deliv environment. scenarios.
ery of change, by integrating all phases of the ■ Unit and functional test capabilities with a
application development lifecycle, from agile Address mainframe skills concerns: Instantly local execution engine that supports code
planning through analysis, development, com reduce the skills gap between mainframe coverage and performance statistics and
pilation, unit testing and debugging. COBOL and Java or C# developers by offering provides a COBOL unit test framework.
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Figure 1. Code Coverage reporting for PL/I
Figure 3. Industry Standard IDEs including VSCode
Code analysis and standards checking: In
■ Access to an enterprise wide application ■ Navigate through the UNIX sub-system
tegrated directly into the IDE at point of change
analysis reposition through an additional (USS) accessing functions like edit, browse,
means developers can make changes to ex
integrated web UI client. rename, delete and copy/paste across
isting programs with more confidence. Sup
systems.
port includes:
Visual Studio Code Plug-in for fast and simple ■ Take advantage of analysis and smart
■ Program and Data Flow graphs. COBOL Editing with key features like compile COBOL, PL/I and JCL edit tooling for
■ Get references command to identify any and debug available when Enterprise Developer fast syntax error detection and content
programs, screens, data or other objects is installed. assist when editing source modules on
that might be impacted (upstream and the host. This includes those that
down) by an application change. Mainframe integration and remote develop use mainframe pre-compilers.
■ Standards checking rules to easily verify ment from a single Eclipse based IDE enables
■ Submit jobs for mainframe compilation
that the developed code meets site developers to:
with integrated error output to quickly
specific standards before check-in. ■ Browse MVS mainframe datasets, submit view and resolve issues.
■ Predefined queries that can be easily jobs and view the system output.
■ Start debug and unit test sessions directly
modified and extended as well as on the mainframe.
being run as an automated part of a
Continuous Integration (CI) process.
Figure 2. Advanced visual editing and debugging capabilities
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Data Sheet
Enterprise Developer
■ Edit members directly, or checkout to a
partitioned data set or local Enterprise
Developer project off the mainframe.
Effective team-working and collaboration:
Application work-grouping enables develop
ers to share source files, data and program
executables. This ensures secure, centralized
team and application management, and greatly
simplifies the task of setting up a shared multi-
user development environment.
Comprehensive mainframe compatibility:
To enable mainframe applications to be devel
oped and tested on Windows without reliance
on the mainframe. Support is provided for:
■ Multiple IBM mainframe COBOL dialects
Figure 4. Program control graphs for easier application understanding
including support for Enterprise COBOL
6.2 and 6.3 features including new
PIC U support.
■ Compatibility with IBM Enterprise
■ Quickly integrate mainframe and distributed
PL/I as well as ANSI PL/I
tools that have REST APIs directly into
Eclipse without developing or maintaining ■ IBM HL Assembler edit, compile,
Eclipse JAVA plugins. debug and runtime execution.
■ Online CICS or IMS TM application
■ Create predefined customizations to
upport different development processes
s development including a GUI BMS
screen painter and BMS and MFS
that can be managed and deployed centrally.
macro compilers.
■ Improve developer acceptance and
■ Support for IBM CICS JSON Web Services
realize productivity gains.
as either a service provider or requester.
Mainframe source control integration*: In ■ Batch application and JCL support
clud ing Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF, CA including remote job submission on
Endevor and IBM Software Configuration and the mainframe.
Library Manager (SCLM). Developers have full
access to tools and projects on and off the Extensive mainframe data support: For edit
Figure 5. Code Analysis and standards checking mainframe, from a single development envi ing, accessing and transforming different main
directly from the IDE frame data formats. Developers can access:
ronment. This enables them to:
■ Navigate Source libraries and packages ■ Their own local mainframe QSAM and
Easy Eclipse customization: Typical develop VSAM datasets, Generation Data Groups
with a graphical tree view.
ment processes involve a wide range of tools __________
such as source control, agile planning, test and ■ Review software components, and version
data management. Ready and easy access and dependencies lists. * I ntegration to CA Endevor, Micro Focus
ChangeMan and IBM SCLM provided through
from a single IDE is a must for fast acceptance ■ Get access to all available versions of a
add-on Enterprise Developer models.
and adoption. Enterprise Developer provides a source member.
simple and highly customizable approach to:
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■ Development of applications targeted
for the .NET or JVM environments.
Easy transition for Mainframe Express users:
Existing Mainframe Express and AppMaster
Builder (AMB) users can now more easily move
across to Enterprise Developer, while preserv
ing many of the assets and project structures.
The product provides the flexibility to run En
terprise Developer side-by-side with the ex
isting Micro Focus product IDEs, to support a
phased transition at the customer’s own pace.
Product Options
The Enterprise Developer product range to
meet your development requirements:
Enterprise Developer for z Systems: For de
velopers who want the flexibility to develop and
Figure 6. Integration into Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF
test applications both on and off the mainframe,
giving them freedom to choose how and where
(GDGs), IMSDB and DB2 database automatically separating business logic and they develop and modernize applications.
emulations for testing. computations into new callable objects that
■ Integration directly into datasets and can be tested and deployed in new ways. Enterprise Developer for z Systems comprises
databases residing on the mainframe. the following:
■ Capabilities to extend applications through
■ Tools to simplify moving mainframe J2EE, COM, web services and SOA.
r elational data to alternative databases Enterprise Developer: A full function main
such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and frame development environment running un
IBM DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows. der Windows. With the choice of Visual Studio
or Eclipse developers have all the tools to de
■ Powerful graphical data record editors
velop, compile, debug, test and modernize ap
that enables field level display, edit,
plications disconnected from the mainframe.
cut/copy/paste, find/replace and filter
This means no wait times or resource conten
criteria, making it easy to identify and
tion. Applications can be deployed back to the
edit specific data records or create
mainframe or modernized for deployment on
cut down data files for testing.
distributed, virtual or cloud platforms.
■ Support for moving mainframe QSAM and
VSAM file formats to a relational database Enterprise Developer Connect: An Eclipse
without changing application logic. based development environment that en
ables developers to take advantage of mod
Efficient application modernization: Tools ern development tooling integrated directly
and processes to support application mod into current mainframe tools and processes.
ernization, whether these are: The product’s easy customization offers a fast
■ Code slicing facilities that enable developers Figure 7. Code Slicing tools for automatically transition to new tooling.
to create new, re-usable components by extracting re-usable components.
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“This has given us flexibility, development agility,
increased team collaboration, and ultimately, a higher
quality product and service for our customers.”
RICHARD CLEAVER Contact us at:
CIO www.microfocus.com
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rately installable component without an IDE grated into automated development pipelines
that is available with Enterprise Developer and can be deployed into a container.
and Enterprise Developer for z. It provides an
System Requirements and Platform Support
I ntegrated Development Environments Platforms HPUX
■ Visual Studio 2019*, Visual Studio 2017* Microsoft Windows ■ 11.31 2018 release on Itanium
■ Eclipse 4.16 (2020-06) shipped with product ■ Windows 8.1, 10 Solaris
■ AdoptOpenJDK 11 (shipped with product) ■ Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 ■ 11 SPARC
Database Support SUSE Ubuntu
■ Compatibility with IBM DB2 for z/OS V9, ■ 12 SP4 and above 64bit only Intel and ■ 18.x, 20.x
V10, V11 & V12 System z
■ Centos
IBM DB2 LUW 10.5, 11.1, 11.5 ■ SUSE 15 64-bit only on Intel and System z
■ Microsoft SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, ■ 7.x. 8.x
Red Hat
2019, Azure DB and MI AWS Linux
■ 7.x, 8.x on Intel and 8.x on System z
■ Oracle 19c ■ 2
■ Postgres 10.5, 11.x and 12.x Oracle Linux
Kubernetes
■ MySQL 5.7 ■ 7.x, 8.x on Intel
■ 1.15
■ Red Hat Compatible Kernel
* Use of the Visual Studio 2019 and 2017 IDE ■ Oracle Unbreakable Kernel Docker
versions will require a separate purchasable ■ Community Edition
license from Microsoft. IBM AIX
■ Windows Server 2016: CE 17.09.0-ce-win33
■ 7.1, 7.2
■ Red Hat: CE 1.12.6
■ SUSE: CE 17.04.0
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