LANSA for iSeries

A simply more productive 5250 development tool for IBM i

LANSA is the premier IBM i, System i, AS/400 and iSeries development tool and is easy-to-learn and easy-to-use. Using LANSA's iSeries development tool, based on LANSA's powerful, portable 4GL, application development is much faster than RPG. Extend your existing applications and rapidly design and create new applications. Maintenance is much easier with centralized definitions of common logic in the LANSA Meta Data Repository.

Rapidly build efficient applications

Packaged solutions seldom, if ever, meet all your needs. The cost of customizing in RPG or COBOL is often many times the cost of initial purchase. With LANSA’s iSeries development tool you can easily extend existing packages or build complete systems. Anybody who understands the essentials of fields, files and programs is immediately highly productive.

LANSA compiles to native RPG for high performance but there is no need to write and maintain RPG. Even debugging is performed at the LANSA level.

Multilingual field definitions for screen and report descriptions, help text and error messages are stored in the LANSA Meta Data Repository. Multiple users can access the language of their choice from a single program version. You only design and maintain one version.

"To develop a huge system like ours in a 3GL
would almost be impossible." – KLM
Equipment Services Netherlands

Easily maintain your applications

The LANSA Meta Data Repository is the key to rapid response to user change requests.

By centralizing common logic in the Meta Data Repository, programs inherit data validations, date calculations, help text, error messages, file navigation rules, security, commitment control and referential integrity – all without programming.

With LANSA's centrally enforced business rules, you have much less code to maintain because you change definitions in one place and all programs using the definitions behave according to your new rules.

LANSA's iSeries development tool also automatically creates screens and reports.

Portability

With minimal effort you can extend 5250 applications to the Web and Windows with Visual LANSA.

Your investment is protected and your future costs are reduced.

These few lines automatically paint the
screen, perform data validations, display
error messages, automate CUA function key
processing and securely update the database

Easily design new applications

LANSA's data modeler can rapidly create your database with complete referential integrity from a logical data model.

To create programs LANSA supplies many programmable templates for standard applications. Using these templates, you answer a series of questions and generate quality LANSA programs, screens and reports automatically. You can also easily create your own templates to implement your development standards, if required. Alternatively, LANSA's editor with full syntax prompting can be used to develop your programs.

Building applications with LANSA's iSeries development tool is easy and productive.

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