Alternatives to 2E

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    Amazon CodeWhisperer
    Build apps faster with ML-powered coding companion. Accelerate application development with automatic code recommendations based on the code and comments in your IDE. Empower developers to use artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to create syntactically correct and secure applications. Generate entire functions and logical code blocks without having to search and customize code snippets from the web. Stay focused and never leave the IDE, with real-time customized code recommendations for all your Java, Python, and JavaScript projects. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on their comments in natural language and code in the integrated development environment (IDE). Accelerate frontend and backend development by empowering developers with automatic code recommendations. Save time and effort by using CodeWhisperer to generate code to build and train your ML models.
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    Broadcom Gen
    Gen is a single, integrated development environment that enables teams to create and maintain large-scale business applications for multiple platforms. It helps organizations respond quickly and effectively to a changing business environment, manage applications throughout the development lifecycle, and protect enterprise investments in core business systems. Gen supports model-driven development, allowing teams to define business logic and application behavior at a higher level of abstraction, then generate code that can run across mainframe, distributed, and other supported platforms. It is designed for high-performance, scalable enterprise applications and helps reduce the complexity of building and maintaining mission-critical systems. Gen supports analysis, design, construction, testing, deployment, and maintenance from a common environment, helping development teams improve consistency and productivity across complex application portfolios.
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    BMC AMI DevX

    BMC AMI DevX

    BMC Software

    BMC AMI DevX reimagines mainframe development by helping teams build better code with less friction, stronger flow, and a more modern developer experience. It unifies agile development, testing, debugging, promotion, and delivery in a mainframe-inclusive toolchain designed to support developers at every skill level. Teams can work directly in preferred environments such as Eclipse and VS Code, reducing context switching and simplifying onboarding for new developers. BMC AMI DevX helps streamline editing, build, source code management, approvals, and deployment through Code Pipeline, enabling concurrent development, faster releases, and more secure delivery. Code Insights gives developers real-time visibility into complex mainframe applications, helping visualize logic, dependencies, and monolithic code structures, while generative AI explanations support faster understanding of unfamiliar COBOL, JCL, PL/I, and Assembler code.
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    Endevor

    Endevor

    Broadcom

    Broadcom Endevor is a mainframe DevOps and software change management solution designed to help organizations manage, build, and deploy mission-critical applications securely and efficiently. The platform provides automated development workflows while maintaining strong compliance, auditability, and software asset protection throughout the deployment lifecycle. Endevor supports modern DevOps practices by integrating Git-based workflows, CI/CD automation, and RESTful APIs without requiring risky lift-and-shift migrations. The solution includes tools such as Bridge for Git, Team Build, and Explorer for Endevor to support hybrid and Git-native development environments. Developers can work within familiar tools like ISPF, Eclipse, VS Code, and Code4z while maintaining centralized governance and traceability. Endevor also strengthens software supply chain security through digitally signed SBOM generation and compliance-focused development controls.
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    OpenFrame

    OpenFrame

    TmaxSoft

    OpenFrame from TmaxSoft is a comprehensive mainframe modernization and replatforming solution that enables organizations to migrate legacy mainframe applications and data to open systems such as Linux, Unix, Docker containers, or public cloud environments without modifying existing business logic, preserving core functionality while reducing total cost of ownership and avoiding risky rewrites. It delivers a future-oriented, standard three-tier architecture that improves performance, stability, flexibility, and scalability compared with traditional mainframes, with support for over 100K MIPS and increased processing capacity. OpenFrame uses advanced compiler technology and an integrated asset analysis environment (OF Manager) to automatically convert user interface logic, application logic, and data structures so applications run natively in open environments with minimal manual effort, enabling existing personnel and skill sets to be retained.
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    Panvalet

    Panvalet

    Broadcom

    Panvalet is a library management system from Broadcom designed to centralize the storage and management of source code, Job Control Language (JCL), object files, and data within mainframe environments. The platform helps organizations reduce the complexity and overhead associated with maintaining business applications by providing a single centralized repository for application assets. Panvalet enables development teams to establish, maintain, and protect control libraries for source programs and critical operational data. The system provides immediate access to application components for maintenance, processing, and development workflows. Panvalet also improves security and reliability by protecting source code and program assets from accidental loss, theft, disasters, and operational risks. The platform streamlines application development by automating manual processes and improving visibility across programming environments.
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    IBM Developer for z/OS
    IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive development toolset designed to modernize and accelerate application development on IBM z/OS systems. The platform provides Eclipse-based and Visual Studio Code-based tools for developing, debugging, and maintaining applications written in COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, REXX, Java, C/C++, and JCL. It supports modern DevOps practices by integrating with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated build systems, and cloud-based development environments. IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition also includes advanced debugging capabilities across Eclipse, VS Code, and 3270 interfaces for flexible mainframe troubleshooting. The platform helps developers improve productivity through smart code navigation, syntax checking, data flow visualization, and automated deployment features. Additional tools such as ZCodeScan and code coverage analysis help organizations improve application quality and identify security vulnerabilities.
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    Rocket Enterprise Suite
    Rocket® Enterprise Suite is an application modernization solution designed to reduce the risk of mainframe modernization by allowing organizations to migrate mainframe applications in their existing code. This minimizes failure risk and delivers faster project timelines. It supports both COBOL and PL/I workloads and can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, providing flexibility for diverse IT infrastructures. The suite includes tools for analyzing, securing, accessing, developing, testing, deploying, and migrating mainframe applications. It uses an AI-powered natural language assistant to simplify code analysis, making it easier for teams to understand and document complex mainframe applications and improve DevOps practices Backed by 40 years of experience and thousands of successful mainframe modernization projects, Rocket Enterprise Suite is built to deliver modern application development with lower project risk and increased development speed.
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    IBM App Discovery Delivery Intelligence
    IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI) is an analytical platform for application modernization. It uses cognitive technologies to analyze mainframe applications and quickly discover and understand the interdependencies of changes. Enhance mainframe applications rapidly to help drive revenue. Gain back your investment and start reaping returns quickly. Better understand application complexity to anticipate issues and cut app/development costs. Evolve systems and applications rapidly to take advantage of hybrid cloud. Accelerate your digital transformation with application insights that increase productivity and reduce risk. Use rapid analysis capabilities to discover the relationships between the components of your IBM z/OS® applications and understand the impact of potential change. Quickly find business rules, code snippets and APIs so that you can leverage them to support your business processes.
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    Rocket ChangeMan

    Rocket ChangeMan

    Rocket Software

    Rocket ChangeMan is a suite of mainframe change management tools designed to strengthen control, governance, and productivity across mission-critical systems and applications on IBM z/OS by managing software change from development through test and into production with accountability and quality assurance at every step. It centralizes and automates the lifecycle of code changes, assets, and configurations to reduce maintenance costs and regression errors through strict version control, traceable builds, packaging automation, and strategic release planning while preserving system integrity and simplifying audits. ChangeMan ZMF manages every software change and asset with support for developer choice in virtually any IDE, modern DevOps tools, or traditional environments like TSO/ISPF, and integrates seamlessly with Git to ensure accurate data mapping and trusted change tracking.
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    BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID
    BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID automates the detection, analysis, and diagnosis of mainframe application and system abends. Developers spend too many hours manually identifying and resolving abends, and Abend-AID automatically detects, analyzes, and diagnoses problems across multiple environments to help developers become more productive. Developers and operations teams can reduce the time and effort required to identify and resolve mainframe application and system abends by capturing information in real time across multiple environments, reducing downtime, and improving the reliability and quality of mainframe applications. It integrates with other BMC and third-party solutions for a seamless workflow that helps developers quickly and accurately address issues. It provides automated failure alerts through Slack, Teams, or ChatOps with links to root cause analysis, speeding remediation time.
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    BMC COPE

    BMC COPE

    BMC Software

    BMC COPE provides IMS virtualization to make new development images of IMS available nearly on demand, significantly reducing the cost and delay associated with creating new IMS subsystems. Creating and maintaining multiple IMS development and test systems is hard, and COPE helps virtualize IMS systems so teams can reduce the need to maintain separate IMS systems and related components for every development and testing stage of an application. It simplifies the development environment with simultaneous execution of multiple application versions that require IMS database services and supports different versions of batch or BMP programs and IMS databases, including Full Function, HALDB, MSDB, and DEDB. COPE connects to Db2, MQ, and CICS subsystems from a single physical IMS system and can be used with BMC AMI DevX Code Debug, BMC AMI DevX File-AID, and BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID to debug IMS applications within a COPE virtualized environment.
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    Rocket Enterprise Developer
    Rocket Enterprise Developer is a software designed to provide integrated development tools for building and maintaining applications across diverse platforms. The software offers features such as advanced debugging, performance analysis, and version control integration to facilitate application lifecycle management. It enables developers to work with various programming languages and frameworks within a unified interface. The software addresses business needs related to modernizing legacy systems, streamlining development processes, and reducing operational overhead by supporting mainframe, midrange, and open systems development. It is geared toward organizations seeking to manage complex application environments with enhanced productivity and consistency in their software development workflows.
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    Rocket Visual COBOL

    Rocket Visual COBOL

    Rocket Software

    Rocket Visual COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows. With Rocket Visual COBOL, engineering teams work with COBOL inindustry-standard dev tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. It delivers advanced editing and debugging, continuous background compilation, and code analysis to speed development and onboarding. Its portable deployment platform enables risk-free moves to new infrastructure, supports cloud, container, and ARM environments, and integrates smoothly with APIs, .NET, and JVM. Rocket products also extend the value of large COBOL systems by making them easier to understand and evolve. GenAI powered insights help teams work confidently with COBOL and accelerate delivery.
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    BMC AMI DevOps for Db2
    BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 speeds up application changes by automatically integrating mainframe database changes into the agile application development process. It integrates with application development orchestration tools to automatically capture database changes and communicate them to the database administrator while enforcing DevOps best practices. It helps support business agility while maintaining database continuity by accelerating application deployment, providing self-service for application developers, improving the quality and efficiency of Db2 schema changes, streamlining communication between application development and DBA teams, mitigating risk through fully audited and transparent automation, and providing dashboard-based visibility into database change activity. BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 enables developers to integrate Db2 schema changes into an agile process and make DBA-authorized schema changes automatically in each environment as development progresses.
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    Adabas & Natural

    Adabas & Natural

    Software AG

    In an age of ever-faster change, you need a forward-thinking partner with a vision. someone who can help you take your powerful Adabas & Natural applications to 2050 and beyond. You’ve relied on Adabas & Natural to get the job done—for decades. Look ahead to a future where you can continue to make the most of that investment and the unique business logic built into your core applications. We’re that partner, committed to helping you digitalize your legacy, fast and risk-free. Together, let’s manage the generational change of developers, modernize your applications to save costs, expand the reach of your core apps, and accelerate development in an ultra-modern environment. Count on leading-edge Adabas & Natural technologies to help you optimize your IT environment and modernize your applications, risk free and fast. Connect to new services with APIs. Run Adabas & Natural in the cloud. Attract new developer talent with DevOps. Save costs by offloading mainframe workload to zIIP.
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    SQL-Ease for Db2 for z/OS
    SQL-Ease for Db2 for z/OS helps developers speed up application review, debugging, and SQL performance tuning without leaving the ISPF edit session. It reduces program development time by allowing programmers to test and fine-tune SQL statements before the program is compiled. Embedded SQL can be tested, debugged, and tuned directly from the ISPF editor, with functions for generating, standardizing, checking, executing, explaining, and analyzing SQL. SQL-Ease generates syntactically correct SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT, MERGE, JOIN, UNION, and subselect statements for COBOL, Assembler, SPUFI, PL/I, and C programs, then places the SQL at the specified location. It can standardize hand-coded SQL into a consistent, easy-to-read format, check SQL syntax, execute SQL from an application program or SQL Editor, and return results with important execution statistics.
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    AveriSource

    AveriSource

    AveriSource

    AveriSource accelerates midrange and mainframe modernization through application intelligence, business rules extraction, and AI-powered transformation. It provides a comprehensive, proven modernization technology for organizations looking to accelerate and streamline their modernization journey, with the insight, accuracy, and flexibility to support complex legacy modernization projects. From early-stage assessments through end-to-end refactor, replatform, or reimagine transformation initiatives, it aligns with modernization goals and helps teams make informed strategic decisions. It supports the full modernization journey by helping organizations assess legacy application landscapes, rationalize which applications to modernize, and execute the right modernization strategy. AveriSource Inventory develops a comprehensive understanding of legacy applications by uncovering code insights, identifying unused files, and verifying environmental completeness.
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    CodeTurn

    CodeTurn

    Astadia

    CodeTurn is Astadia’s automated mainframe code conversion product, built to automatically transform legacy source code into modern source code that is maintainable and 100% functionally equivalent to the original. It takes an application’s source code and converts it to functionally identical sources, ready to run in an alternative environment on the same platform or on a different platform altogether. Because the conversion and testing are fully automated, the outcome of the modernization project becomes highly predictable in terms of risks, costs, and duration. The migrated application is free of dependencies on proprietary Astadia software and relies on native industry-standard technologies instead. CodeTurn integrates all aspects of conversion to produce high-quality, functionally equivalent code and is typically used with Astadia tools such as DataTurn for legacy data migration, TestMatch for automated testing, and DataMatch for automated batch testing.
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    ibi FOCUS

    ibi FOCUS

    Cloud Software Group

    ibi™ FOCUS is the premier integrated development environment for IBM Z applications, directly supporting reporting, transaction processing, charting, interactive and batch processing, and universal file description. It provides rich data access with adapters for all major mainframe databases and file systems, and outputs to a wide variety of formats. Simplifying user and data access, FOCUS uses the same access language for all data structures, including universal JOIN and merge functionality. Reporting can be output in unparalleled data and graphic formats, such as HTML, PDF, PS, IDA (InDocument Analytics), XLSX, and PPTX. FOCUS creates a powerful and efficient runtime environment on IBM Z Systems, allowing users to leverage unique IBM Z functionality to maximize speed and cost savings. It delivers high levels of accuracy through the incorporation of hardware-level native arithmetic, with integrated decimal precision formats.
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    IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces
    IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces provides a modern experience for mainframe software developers working with z/OS applications in the cloud. Powered by the open source projects Zowe™ and Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces offers an easy, streamlined onboarding process to provide mainframe developers with the tools they need. Using container technology, IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces brings the necessary tools to the task at hand. It provides a single-click developer workspace and eliminates local environment configuration. IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces devfile registry is a web service that provides a list of Wazi for Dev Spaces stacks to create ready-to-use workspaces. The list of stacks is used in the quick add, CodeReady Dashboard. A devfile stack contains the definitions for an application developer workspace based on devfile specifications.
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    Rocket Verastream

    Rocket Verastream

    Rocket Software

    Rocket Verastream is an enterprise integration platform designed to modernize, extend, and connect legacy systems without disrupting existing operations. It enables organizations to expose mainframe and midrange applications as web services, mobile apps, or cloud-ready components, all while preserving the underlying business logic. With Verastream, IT teams can retool legacy applications into flexible, API-driven assets that support digital transformation initiatives. The solution helps accelerate modernization by allowing companies to roll out new, integrated capabilities at their own pace. Its suite of tools—including Host Integrator, Bridge Integrator, SDKs, and Process Designer—offers multiple pathways for integration depending on system type and project complexity. Verastream ultimately helps enterprises maintain business momentum while reducing risk and avoiding costly system overhauls.
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    Assembler Code Refactoring
    Rocket Assembler Code Refactoring is a specialized modernization solution that automatically restructures legacy Assembler code into structured pseudocode or modern languages such as COBOL, C, or Java without altering external behavior, enabling faster, lower-risk modernization and improved maintainability. Assembler code is notoriously dense, poorly documented, and supported by a shrinking pool of specialists, making maintenance slow, costly, and error-prone; this product addresses those challenges by delivering semantics-preserving, auditable transformations that reduce outages and secure modernization without sacrificing stability. Its fully automated core engine uses mathematically guaranteed logic equivalence to eliminate conversion risk, dramatically accelerating projects while ensuring that refactored outputs are semantically identical to the original code.
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    BMC Compuware ISPW
    A modern mainframe CI/CD tool can ensure your mainframe code pipelines are secure, stable, and streamlined throughout the DevOps lifecycle. With BMC Compuware ISPW, you’ll have the confidence of knowing that you can quickly and safely build, test, and deploy mainframe code. ISPW empowers developers of all experience levels to increase the quality, velocity, and efficiency of software development and delivery. Use ISPW for mainframe source code management (SCM) as well as build and deploy, or with enterprise Git. Connect with modern DevOps toolchains using REST APIs and command line interfaces (CLIs). Flexibility to work in Eclipse-based Topaz, ISPF, or VS Code. Automate, standardize, and monitor deployments into multiple target environments. Support multiple developers working on the same program at the same time. Catch conflicts early with intuitive displays that show the real-time status of all programs throughout the lifecycle.
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    Z/XDC

    Z/XDC

    ColeSoft

    Z/XDC gives developers interactive, source-level debugging for mainframe programs across any z/OS environment, helping them step through live code, inspect variables in real time, and resolve issues faster than traditional methods. It eliminates blind debugging by providing complete, real-time visibility into program execution and bringing modern debugging capabilities to mainframe development. Developers can dramatically reduce debugging time from days to hours, test theories immediately without lengthy recompile cycles, make ad hoc changes, perform “what if” scenarios, fix issues, and verify corrections without recompiling. Z/XDC supports line-by-line code stepping, on-the-fly code changes, flag flipping, data field and register modification, PSW control, module loading and deletion, GETMAINs and FREEMAINs, and Event Control Block posting. It provides source-level visibility so developers can view code as written, automatically load source image maps from ADATA, and more.
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    Rocket Workload Automation
    Rocket Workload Automation and DevOps Orchestration is a unified platform that enables organizations to design, visualize, orchestrate, and automate business workflows and workload execution across distributed, hybrid, and mainframe environments from a centralized console, helping teams simplify complexity, reduce manual intervention, mitigate operational risk, and improve delivery velocity. It supports cross-platform automation that spans on-premises, cloud, and mainframe systems, giving operators and developers a single place to manage task dependencies, job schedules, and end-to-end process flows while maintaining consistency and reliability across heterogeneous IT landscapes. It includes components such as Rocket Enterprise Orchestrator for scheduling and managing complex development and operations workflows; Rocket Zena for streamlining enterprise workload automation with full visibility into operational processes.
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    Rocket TMON One

    Rocket TMON One

    Rocket Software

    Rocket® TMON® One is a comprehensive monitoring solution designed to optimize mainframe performance, availability, and capacity planning across hybrid cloud environments. It enables enterprises to effectively monitor IBM zSystems and connected distributed systems from a single platform. With real-time visibility into applications, middleware, databases, and network components, teams can quickly identify and resolve performance issues. TMON® One leverages AI-driven analytics to proactively detect anomalies before they impact operations. The platform offers fast implementation and a low total cost of ownership compared to traditional monitoring tools. It integrates seamlessly with observability platforms through data streaming capabilities. Rocket® TMON® One helps organizations ensure application reliability while reducing operational costs.
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    Rocket Enterprise Analyzer
    Rocket® Enterprise Analyzer is an application intelligence and static analysis platform, purpose-built to give organizations deep, actionable insight into their most complex mainframe application portfolios. As enterprises work to modernize and transform their core business systems, Rocket Enterprise Analyzer dramatically reduces risk and accelerates timelines by thoroughly examining source code, databases, job schedulers, and system definitions—no matter the scale.
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    SAP Build Code
    Generative AI-based code development with Joule copilot, optimized for Java and JavaScript application development. SAP Build Code, generative AI-based code development with Joule copilot, optimized for Java and JavaScript application development, providing a turn-key environment for coding, testing, integrations, and application lifecycle management. Use AI to generate code and app logic aligned with SAP-centric programming models from natural language descriptions. Create data models and sample data conforming to apps with Joule copilot. Produce rapid unit tests with AI for existing code to increase quality and precision. Enable fusion team development by sharing application components, such as user experience, business logic, and processes. Drive secure collaboration with unified governance and simplified application lifecycle management for professional and citizen developers. Generative AI-code development with Joule copilot.
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    Rocket Enterprise Test Server
    Rocket® Enterprise Test Server is an IBM mainframe application test environment on Windows. It enables IT organizations to confidently test mainframe application change on scalable, low-cost hardware.
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    Imogen

    Imogen

    Mechanical Orchard

    Mechanical Orchard’s Imogen platform rewrites mainframe applications with confidence by using real data flows, not just code translation, to safely rebuild aging systems into modern code. Legacy modernization is often slowed by stopgap patches, cloud emulation, technical debt, integration risk, and high-stakes cutover moments, but Imogen changes the risk equation with a behavior-first, test-driven approach. Instead of focusing only on code, Imogen captures how individual workloads actually behave through real data flows and creates a precisely equivalent behavioral replica of a complex system through a clear, iterative, and transparent process. It builds a precise behavioral specification from the running system, then applies a closed loop of rapid code generation and verification against those specifications, creating software that is audit-quality, idiomatic, and ready for what comes next.
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    Rocket ContentEdge

    Rocket ContentEdge

    Rocket Software

    Rocket ContentEdge is a governance-first content services solution designed to enable secure, in-place access to unstructured information like documents, images, records, and operational content across cloud, on-premises, and mainframe environments to unlock insights, analytics, and productivity without compromising compliance or existing controls. It addresses the common challenge of applying AI and analytics to unstructured content safely by leveraging safety-first generative AI capabilities, automated discovery, and governed access so teams can query sensitive content where it resides without moving or duplicating data, honoring existing security and compliance policies. ContentEdge centralizes and modernizes content by eliminating silos, integrating systems and applications through a single API, automating processes while maintaining data quality and governance at scale, and enhancing accuracy with real-time error detection and audit trails.
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    BackAnt

    BackAnt

    BackAnt

    BackAnt is an AI-native backend development tool designed to automatically generate production-ready APIs and backend infrastructure from simple specifications or prompts. It works primarily as a command-line interface that scaffolds complete backend applications using the Flask framework, allowing developers to generate fully structured projects in seconds instead of building them manually. When a user runs a generation command or provides a JSON specification describing the required endpoints and data structure, the system automatically creates the key components of a backend application, including API routes, business-logic services, data repositories, database models, and application startup configuration. The generated project follows a layered architecture that separates routing, business logic, and data access, helping maintain clean and scalable code organization.
    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    TCS MasterCraft TransformPlus

    TCS MasterCraft TransformPlus

    Tata Consultancy Services

    TCS MasterCraft™ TransformPlus is a cognitive transformation platform that provides clear visibility into core business applications, with an intelligent blueprint, and centralized knowledge repository, which is technology agnostic and implicit knowledge driven. Its automated conversion platform for modernization and faster roll outs, helps enterprises in their digital journey without business disruption. Cognitive code analysis based application knowledge repository with business rule externalization. A platform for designing and executing data transformation and migration for enterprises, especially during legacy application modernization. A solution for development of new digital applications using automatic code generation platform, based on model-based development. An automated migration platform for DB and language conversion, which accelerates application transformation.
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    BMC Compuware Topaz
    BMC Compuware Topaz is a comprehensive suite of modern mainframe development and testing tools designed for greater developer productivity, no matter how old or complex the program. Get modern mainframe development and testing with better visibility and knowledge. A Compuware-commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that 64 percent of mainframe-powered organizations are running over half their mission-critical workloads on the mainframe. Meanwhile, they are only replacing one-third of retiring experts. Given this new reality, it is critical companies adopt a force multiplier that lets their development teams accomplish more with less. The Topaz suite can help mainframe developers at all experience levels quickly understand, update, test, maintain and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex or most poorly documented systems.
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    Soft-Machine

    Soft-Machine

    Soft-Machine

    Soft-Machine is an AI-native development environment designed to help users build, deploy, and operate autonomous software systems through natural language and agent-based workflows. It provides a unified interface where users can describe applications, workflows, or tasks, and the system translates those instructions into working software by orchestrating AI agents that handle coding, infrastructure, and execution. It focuses on reducing the gap between idea and implementation by abstracting traditional development complexity, enabling agents to generate code, manage dependencies, configure environments, and iterate on applications without requiring manual setup. It emphasizes continuous interaction between humans and AI, where users can refine outputs conversationally while the system maintains context and adapts behavior over time.
    Starting Price: Free
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    VectorCAST

    VectorCAST

    VECTOR Informatik

    VectorCAST is a comprehensive test-automation suite designed to streamline unit, integration, and system testing across the embedded software development lifecycle. It automates test case generation and execution for C, C++, and Ada applications, supports host, target, and continuous-integration environments, and offers structural code coverage metrics to help validate safety- and mission-critical systems. It integrates with simulation workflows such as software-in-the-loop and processor-in-the-loop, links to model-based engineering tools like Simulink/Embedded Coder, supports white-box testing features like dynamic instrumentation, fault injection, and test harness generation, and can combine static-analysis results (e.g., from Polyspace) with dynamic test coverage for full-lifecycle verification. Key capabilities include linking requirements to tests, managing and reporting coverage across configurations.
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    HCL RTist

    HCL RTist

    HCL Software

    HCL RTist is a development environment for creating complex, event-driven and real-time applications. It is specifically designed to help software engineers with feature-rich tooling for design, analysis, building and deploying embedded, real-time systems and IoT applications. Helps developers design applications at higher abstraction level than code. Meet the only tool you need to develop stateful, event-driven and real-time applications. Embedded systems developers are looking for a developer tool to deliver secure, high-quality production code with quick, agile methodologies allowing them to react to new business requirements while minimizing the maintenance cost of long-lived applications running on many different device preferences of their users. Also, companies strive to implement strict, continuous delivery processes to ensure code integrity and a stable, highly available production deployment of these real-time applications.
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    Autostrada

    Autostrada

    Autostrada

    Autostrada is a code generator designed for Go (Golang) projects, streamlining the creation of web applications or APIs by generating customizable application scaffolds. It automates setup steps and package integrations, allowing developers to focus on application-specific code rather than boilerplate. The generated code provides a solid foundation with a clear and sensible application structure, minimal complexity, idiomatic Go code, and no unnecessary abstractions. Autostrada is not a third-party framework; the generated code is entirely under the developer's control, making it easy to extend and adapt as needed. It includes helpers for common tasks such as parsing JSON requests, rendering HTML templates, and managing SQL migrations, tailored to the project's specific requirements. Developers can customize the application scaffold to include only the necessary features, resulting in fewer dependencies, smaller binaries, and reduced maintenance.
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    Buildra

    Buildra

    Buildra

    Buildra is an AI-powered developer platform designed to help teams build, manage, and scale software through a unified, intelligent environment that abstracts infrastructure complexity and accelerates delivery. It functions as an internal developer platform that centralizes workflows such as application development, integration, deployment, and environment management into a self-service layer, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than operational overhead. By providing structured pathways for building and deploying software, it simplifies processes like provisioning environments, managing configurations, and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines, reducing the need for manual intervention and lowering cognitive load. It integrates with existing tools and repositories, enabling teams to work within familiar ecosystems while benefiting from automation and standardized workflows.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    Dazl

    Dazl

    Dazl

    Dazl is an AI-powered application-building platform designed to turn natural-language prompts into high-fidelity, production-ready web applications. It positions itself as a “true AI partner for the creation of any project,” enabling users to shift fluidly between chat-based conversation and visual development panels so they can refine design, logic, and structure in tandem. The platform emphasizes visibility and control; creators can inspect the running application state, review generated code and logic, and maintain alignment between their vision and what the tool produces. By preserving context throughout the session, Dazl aims to reduce the trial-and-error cycles that plague existing prototype-focused AI builders, delivering more accurate interpretations of prompts and consistent results. The result is a tool geared toward helping entrepreneurs, designers, and developers build full-stack applications without the need for traditional hand-coded development workflows.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    DataVantage

    DataVantage

    DataVantage

    ​DataVantage offers comprehensive data management solutions designed to secure and manage sensitive information across mainframe and distributed environments. Key offerings include DataVantage for IMS, Db2, and VSAM, which provide advanced data masking, editing, and extraction capabilities to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) during non-production processes. DataVantage DME (Data Masking Express) offers cost-effective, on-the-fly data masking for Db2, IMS, and VSAM environments, ensuring compliance without disrupting existing workflows. For distributed systems, DataVantage Global delivers robust data masking, obfuscation, and de-identification, supporting compliance and operational efficiency across platforms. Additionally, DataVantage Adviser simplifies COBOL file management post-mainframe rehosting or application modernization, enhancing data accessibility and editing.
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    Zoer

    Zoer

    Zoer

    Zoer is an AI-powered application builder that enables users to create complete, production-ready web applications by simply describing their idea in natural language, eliminating the need for traditional coding. It functions as a full-stack development environment, automatically generating the frontend interface, backend logic, and database structure within a single integrated system, allowing users to move from concept to a working application in minutes. It abstracts complex engineering tasks such as API creation, authentication, and data management, enabling both technical and non-technical users to build software without configuring external services or infrastructure. Zoer includes a conversational AI assistant that allows users to modify features, manage data, and interact with their application using plain language instead of writing code or queries, effectively acting as a full-stack developer and data operator.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    AWS Transform
    AWS Transform is an agentic AI service from Amazon Web Services that automates and accelerates the modernization of legacy workloads, specifically .NET, mainframe, and VMware environments. Built on AWS’s migration and modernization experience, it deploys specialized AI agents to carry out tasks like assessment, code analysis, dependency mapping, refactoring, decomposition, validation, and planning, many of which run in parallel, to speed up large-scale transformations. Through a shared workspace and natural-language chat interface, cross-functional teams can collaborate, track progress, and manage modernization projects from end to end. AWS claims AWS Transform can make .NET apps port up to 4 times faster, greatly speed VMware configuration conversion, and compress mainframe migration timelines (years down to months), while also helping reduce legacy licensing, infrastructure cost, and ongoing maintenance expenses.
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    Rocket PRO/JCL

    Rocket PRO/JCL

    Rocket Software

    Rocket PRO/JCL is a DevOps‑enabled JCL management solution that standardizes, validates, and optimizes Job Control Language (JCL) across IBM z/OS environments. It helps mainframe teams maintain an error‑free, high‑performing, and cost‑efficient production JCL ecosystem by automating validation, enforcing site standards, reducing failed runs, and integrating seamlessly into modern CI/CD toolchains.
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    ComputeSDK

    ComputeSDK

    ComputeSDK

    ComputeSDK is a free and open-source toolkit designed to enable developers to safely run external or user-generated code within their applications through a unified and consistent interface. It provides a TypeScript-native API that abstracts multiple compute providers, allowing developers to switch between environments such as E2B, Vercel, Daytona, Modal, and others without modifying their core codebase. It is built around isolated sandbox environments, which ensure that executed code runs securely without impacting the host infrastructure, making it suitable for applications that require controlled execution of untrusted code. ComputeSDK supports key capabilities such as executing code and shell commands, managing filesystems, creating and destroying sandboxes, and integrating with modern web frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit.
    Starting Price: $500 per month
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    Altair Compose

    Altair Compose

    Altair Engineering

    Analyzing data, developing algorithms, or creating models - Altair Compose is designed to bring your ideas forward. Altair Compose is an environment for doing math calculations, manipulating, and visualizing data, programming, and debugging scripts useful for repeated computations and process automation. Altair Compose allows users to perform a wide variety of math operations including linear algebra and matrix manipulations, statistics, differential equations, signal processing, control systems, polynomial fitting, and optimization. The broad set of native CAE and test result readers accelerates system understanding and works with Altair Activate® to support model-based development, for multi-domain and system of systems simulations. Altair Embed® completes the model-based design portfolio with automated code generation, allowing for the testing and verification of embedded systems.
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    Heeler

    Heeler

    Heeler

    Heeler is an application security platform that helps development and security teams automate the detection, prioritization, and remediation of open source and application risks by unifying contextual data from code, runtime, deployment, dependencies, and business logic into a single actionable model. It combines static and runtime analysis, software composition analysis, threat modeling, and secrets scanning with a context engine that maps how code runs in production, enabling real-time threat prioritization based on exploitability and business impact rather than raw vulnerability counts. Heeler automatically generates validated remediation guidance and can even produce merge-ready pull requests to upgrade libraries or fix issues, reducing manual research and accelerating fixes. It provides end-to-end visibility across the software development lifecycle, tracking vulnerabilities from identification through resolution and monitoring fixes across deployments.
    Starting Price: $250 per developer
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    C3 AI Suite
    Build, deploy, and operate Enterprise AI applications. The C3 AI® Suite uses a unique model-driven architecture to accelerate delivery and reduce the complexities of developing enterprise AI applications. The C3 AI model-driven architecture provides an “abstraction layer,” that allows developers to build enterprise AI applications by using conceptual models of all the elements an application requires, instead of writing lengthy code. This provides significant benefits: Use AI applications and models that optimize processes for every product, asset, customer, or transaction across all regions and businesses. Deploy AI applications and see results in 1-2 quarters – rapidly roll out additional applications and new capabilities. Unlock sustained value – hundreds of millions to billions of dollars per year – from reduced costs, increased revenue, and higher margins. Ensure systematic, enterprise-wide governance of AI with C3.ai’s unified platform that offers data lineage and governance.
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    Oxeye

    Oxeye

    Oxeye

    Oxeye is designed to expose vulnerable flows in distributed cloud native application code. We incorporate next-generation SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA capabilities to ensure verification of risks in both Dev and Runtime environments. Built for developers and AppSec teams, Oxeye helps to shift-left security while accelerating development cycles, reducing friction, and eliminating vulnerabilities. We deliver reliable results with high accuracy. Oxeye analyzes code vulnerabilities across microservices delivering contextualized risk assessment enriched with infrastructure configuration data. With Oxeye developers can easily track and resolve vulnerabilities. We deliver the vulnerability visibility flow, steps to reproduce, and the exact line of code. Oxeye offers a seamless integration as Daemonset with a single deployment that doesn’t require performing changes in the code. We deliver frictionless security to your cloud-native apps.