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IBM Licensed Programs: Application Development Products
• Workframe: Provides a fully configurable and open integration environment allowing
you to mix and match your favorite tools with ones from VisualAge C++ to create a
personal development environment.
All functions are available in the DBCS environment. In addition to providing integrated tools,
VisualAge for C++ for AS/400 enables future growth, increases productivity, and protects
investment in data and software applications.
Recent Enhancements
VisualAge for C++ for AS/400 includes the following highlights:
• Support for UCS-2 (Unicode CCSID 13488)
• New 64-bit long integer data type
• Support for Integrated File System files larger than 2 GB
• Support for teraspace: A memory model that allows more than 16 MB of contiguous
storage in one allocation
• Integer-to-pointer conversion
• New #pragma convert directive to specify the Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID)
used for converting string literals
IBM VisualAge Generator Server for AS/400 V4R4, 5769-VG1
VisualAge Generator is IBM's VisualAge offering focused on bringing productivity to
organizations. It is a powerful, integrated development workbench used by programmers to
fully define, test, build, and deploy traditional as well as Web-ready enterprise level systems
on a variety of platforms in record time.
With VisualAge Generator, applications are defined from a productive desktop environment,
using easy to learn, powerful, and high level specifications. The application definition is
completely independent from the target runtime environment. The complexity of the system
software infrastructure (transactional and DBMS APIs, Web server complexity, and
communications protocols) is also hidden.
A powerful simulation and test environment enables the programmer to fully test the system
without ever compiling or deploying to the final target system. This environment, built and
integrated into the development workbench, allows rapid iteration between specification and
verification. Once the application is fully verified, a code generation facility can be invoked to
transform the high level environment-neutral specifications into native 3GL source code. The
resulting source is optimized for the compilation and deployment to the selected execution
systems.