The Zend - IBM System i Partnership

Zend and IBM have partnered to deliver Zend Studio for Eclipse i5 Edition, a specially tailored version of Zend’s industry leading PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers. Zend Studio includes all the development features necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle. Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization, database tools and testing Zend Studio speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects. Zend Studio for Eclipse i5 Edition is enhanced to work with integration toolkit provided with Zend Core on i5/OS.

Special i5/OS Features

• Instant online debugging and error fixing against Zend Core for i5/OS
• Customizable and smart context sensitive templates for i5 Toolkit functions
  
  • Create/generate PHP Toolkit code quickly
  • Toolkit functions allows easy integration with i5/OS legacy application and data
  • Call RPG/CL/COBOL program, execute CL command, retrieve Spooled file entries, access Data Area, Data Queue and User Space, etc.
• Works exclusively with Zend Core for i5/OS