Compuware Topaz® Workbench

Modern Eclipse-based IDE for Mainframe Development, Testing and Maintenance

Topaz^® Workbench provides an intuitive interface that enables developers of all experience levels to initiate Compuware’s industry-leading developer tools, Abend-AID^®, File-AID^®, ISPW^®, Xpediter^® and Strobe^®, as well as non-Compuware products and distributed solutions in the same environment. Topaz Workbench can be extended with additional Topaz offerings.

Through Topaz Workbench, mainframe teams can:

• Access Compuware development tools, providing the ability to visualize complex application logic and data relationships, make changes to code, test and debug, and performance tune
• Leverage existing Eclipse frameworks and integrations with popular open-system tools
• Group source, data and launch configurations and other information into Eclipse projects
• Create Topaz Team Profiles that include mainframe and Java projects, preferences, configurations and/or working sets and share them with others to help jumpstart common developer tasks
• Leverage an intelligent multi-language source code editor
• Use JES functions like job submission, review, print and purge
• Navigate to z/OS and z/OS UNIX assets
• Perform common dataset management (i.e. allocation, recall and deletion)
• Copy files from one LPAR to another with a simple drag and drop or right click
• Leverage integrations with industry-leading tools and comprehensive API capabilities that allow users to extend or integrate into Topaz, or use capabilities outside of Eclipse

The Value of Topaz Workbench

• Available at no additional cost to customers on current maintenance
• Makes the mainframe very intuitive for next-gen developers new to the z/OS platform
• Resembles distributed-environment interfaces, making mainframe development different only in syntax
• Helps organizations address the mainframe skills shortage caused by a retiring workforce
• Central administrative capabilities make it easy for an organization to roll out and maintain