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CA taps Eclipse for universal GUI


By Jeff Feinman
August 11, 2009 — 
CA has released a new Eclipse-based GUI that it says makes it easier to test and debug applications on the mainframe. The new GUI, released today, maintains all the features from the green screen, and it helps developers reuse existing mainframe application code to speed development time, the company said.

Mark Combs, senior vice president of research and development for CA’s mainframe business unit, said the new GUI makes experienced mainframe developers more productive, but also provides an easy onramp for less experienced developers.

“It enables programmers to be working on a workstation that is coherent and cohesive, instead of having to flip back and forth in different paradigms for mainframes and Java, and for whatever else they’re doing,” Combs said.

“It provides for integration with all the other things that live in the Eclipse environment, including source control, configuration management systems, and tools used to construct SOA applications.”

The GUI is the main update in new versions of CA's InterTest for CICS, a tester for IBM’s CICS Transaction Server, and CA's InterTest Batch, which debugs applications written in COBOL and PL/I. CA InterTest for CICS now lets users add listings to their PROTSYM storage files, while CA InterTest Batch testers can map storage to a DSECT format specification section.

“They’re symbolic debuggers, and they basically allow a programmer to interact directly with a program he’s debugging to do things like set break points, modify data, and test sets of conditions," said Combs.

"Having done that, they can step through the program instruction by instruction and see what the different data fields look like as they go along. It’s a tremendous productivity booster to somebody debugging a program.”


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