Ray, I quote a very wise man in Los Angeles: 'It's funny how IBM announcements often seem to generate more questions than they answer.'
So true! ALH -----Original Message----- From: Ray Mullins <m...@lerctr.org> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 1:32 Subject: Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License On 2012-04-24 23:36, Edward Jaffe wrote: The "march" toward a personal use z/OS license takes another step forward ... http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS212-145/ENUS212-145.PDF "... Additionally, the [Rational Developer and Test Environment for System z] product can now be purchased as a stand-alone entry point into the Rational development solutions for System z. This lowers the cost of initial purchase, opening the environment for use by developers, testers, and operations personnel, and provides an easier path to adoption for traditional mainframe developers looking to modernize their development and test processes and infrastructure." This is progress. And if Robert Cringley's predictions about IBM's future opefully are wrong, this is promising to basement/mom & pop developers. But does RDTESz (or whatever you want as the acronym) also support z/VSE and /VM for developers? (Yes, I know, I can download the "trial" z/VM and ury-rig it under Hercules...) - . Ray Mullins oseville, CA, USA ttp://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far alls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi rench is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling. -Robert B Wilson nglish is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe ierret [for Alain LaBonté] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
