
72 Java Stand-alone Applications on z/OS Volume II
5.1 Overview of WDz
WebSphere Developer for zSeries (WDz) provides the most comprehensive tool
set for enterprise application development in IBM’s Eclipse-based software
development tools portfolio. WDz provides a set of tools for developing
applications for System z, which makes traditional mainframe development, Web
development, and integrated mixed workload or composite development faster
and more efficient. Some of the capabilities of WDz are summarized as follows:
Development of ASM, COBOL and PL/I applications and services deployed to
CICS, IMS, batch, and DB2 stored procedure-based en ...