Developer Workbench

A good development environment is definitely the key to a developer’s productivity - but it is far from being sufficient. ARCAD-Skipper allows you to enrich your IDE with a set of tools that will greatly enhance your development productivity.

THE SOLUTION

ARCAD has a set of tools to:

• Perform impact analysis, and component allocation on the fly. Thanks to the complementary ARCAD-Observer solution and without leaving the IDE, the developer has permanent control over dependencies and can react in real-time while modifying code.  This tight integration between impact analysis and the change process is a major factor in guaranteeing the non-regression of applications.
• Fully automate the compilation phase of every type of component. Compiling a standard RPG or COBOL program is not the most tedious of tasks. But when it comes to database files, ILE components, SQL code, and the like, a compilation can be far from just the press of a button!  Our ARCAD-Skipper solution absorbs this increase of complexity with ease. The ARCAD philosophy has always been to simplify the developer’s daily work.   For some good examples, check out the ILE and SQL pages on this site...
• Document components on the fly. ARCAD-Skipper can automatically retrieve the comments you have already entered in your source code, and feed these automatically into your technical documentation.
• Ease the Unit Testing phase, by simplified execution of your programs and procedures.

THE ADVANTAGES

Thanks to the RDP environment, IBM i developers can now benefit from a powerful IDE at the state of the art.  Further, ARCAD-Skipper adds value and power to that environment - bringing additional and complementary tools that maximize the level of automation in your change process.