LegaSuite Brings RPG ‘Into the Future’ for SOA, Cloud 
Rocket Software’s latest upgrade to its LegaSuite mainframe integration and SOA platform allows IBM i devs to more easily convert RPG apps into SOA services, extending RPG use and sharing across many platforms. The capability arises from LegaSuite’s deep integration with IBM Rational Open Access: RPG Edition for IBM i.
Rocket Software’s latest upgrade to its LegaSuite mainframe integration and SOA platform allows IBM i devs to more easily convert RPG apps into SOA services, extending RPG use and sharing across many platforms.
The capability arises from LegaSuite’s deep integration with IBM Rational Open Access: RPG Edition for IBM i.
"We are excited about IBM’s Open Access: RPG Edition offering because it brings RPG into the future."
Sam Elias
Worldwide Business Area Executive Seagull Products Rocket Software
“We have a significant installed base of customers who rely on the IBM i platform, so enhancing our LegaSuite products to support IBM Rational’s Open Access: RPG Edition is key to helping organizations offer new, high-performance SaaS and cloud capabilities while preserving their investment in the IBM i,” said Sam Elias, Business Area Executive Worldwide for Seagull products at Rocket Software, in a statement. “We are excited about IBM’s Open Access: RPG Edition offering because it brings RPG into the future.”
The latest LegaSuite RPG edition also provides a dev guide for how to deploy RPG functionality into SaaS and cloud environments by SOA-enabling those application functions, Elias added.
Key features in LegaSuite’s integration with Open Access: RPG Edition include:
- Proven development tooling simplifies and speeds IBM i applications and data integration
- Non-invasive access to IBM i application screen logic and data
- Access to business logic via Rational Open Access: RPG Edition
- Eclipse development environment to easily service-enable IBM i assets
- Flexible deployment to distributed and IBM i environments
- Supports high-volume, secure and scalable deployment
- Support a wide array of IBM i integration options, including application logic, business logic and data integration via JDBC to relational databases
Technically, LegaSuite with Open Access: RPG Edition works by moving the buffer of information from the RPG program to the LegaSuite Integration runtime environment. In turn, the LegaSuite runtime can be deployed natively to the IBM i or other distributed platforms, including virtualized or cloud infrastructures running Windows or Linux.
LegaSuite Integration offers a high-performance IBM i integration and SOA architecture to leverage existing IBM i applications and data resources, without comprising the reliability, availability and security of critical assets. LegaSuite Integration also offers dev the ability to orchestrate granular business functions into complex services which offers design flexibility meet your changing business needs.
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