FWIW I’ve been looking at the offerings to glean the possible uses for open source development. This is my take on investigation and some discussion with IBM through their chat mechanism.
IMHO, IBM can eliminate confusion by defining some terms and expectations like what does development mean? What are you getting in terms of GCP entitlement? Dependencies on use of Parallel Sysplex. If your looking at doing any work that involved development and sharing that code it appears that Personal Edition is the entry point. Learners Edition is a good step forward but leaves a significant gap for those that want to leanr mainframe and contribute their IP (code) openly under an open license and through public means like Git. There are four editions Learners Personal Enterprise Parallel Sysplex Qhat seems clear on all editions is that you cannot: * Run production workload * Distribute compiled code built on ZD&T. They must be compiled on real hardware. *Thoughts* - I could not find references to the number of CPs entitled for Learners and Personal. I presume that this is part of the negotiated price for Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex. - It seems that if you want to run Parallel Sysplex you need Enterprise for z/OS and Parallel Sysplex. I couldn’t find a statement clearly articulating this but it seems that this makes sense given the packaging. Only the first two have prices on the website. *The learners is $120/yr* Entitlement period: 1-year Development: No This item is targeted at people that want to learn administration or develop programming skills for z/OS middleware. Its not for someone who wants to develop code to be sold or used for distribution (commercial or open source). What is unclear is whether you could post your source you developed on Git or other public venues. It is a learner’s edition so it would seem reasonable that if you wrote some useful Rexx, Assembler or other tool that you could share it. I don’t see this distinction clearly spelled out. Binary artifacts of your code like load modules are clearly not in scope. *Personal is ~$5,800 for a 1-year license* Entitlement Period: 1 year with an option to pay double up front for a perpetual license Development: Yes Single User only Does not include Parallel Sysplex (only a single z/OS instance). Uses Hardware Keys (although this was unclear to me as in many cases the website indicates these USBs have been deprecated). *Enterprise* Entitlement Period: 1 Year Multi-User *Parallel Sysplex* Entitlement Period: 1 Year Multi-User Includes z/VM for CF emulation. It wasn’t clear if z/VM was only for CF for z/OS or one could use if for VSE or other operating systems. Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On Oct 29, 2021, at 07:32, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sounds a little better. I, person, will wait for more info. And maybe a few > posts here from people who have used it. I imagine my retirement will be > filled with mind destroying video game playing. 😁 > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 04:40 Laurence Chiu <lch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I just received information from IBM directly on the product. Currently >> it's on a dark launch in the US only but once that has been sorted out it >> will be made available to the rest of the world by the end of the year. >> >> T&C's include (I was only provided an image of the T&C's and I can't post >> this here since apparently the forum strips out images. But in essence >> they are >> >> *What is it?* >> Provide an affordable ZD&T for individual enterprise developers who want to >> develop z/OS skills to be part of the mainframe ecosystem and support them >> in their career success >> >> *How* >> >> Offering access to ZD&T at $120/year to vetted, advanced users for >> educational purposes >> >> *Vetting Criteria* >> >> z/OS Practitioner badge and Master the Mainframe training complete >> >> OR >> >> 1-3 years of sysadmin or system programmer experience [ I would imagine >> most people on this mailing list would easily fall into this category :-) ] >> >> *Targeted Segments* >> >> z/OS students and hobbyists who want a personalised zD&T for learning >> purposes and support their career success. >> >> As an aside, while most of my systems programmer experience has been in >> DB2, IMS and VM, I would like to dabble in CICS or if they offer it, look >> at parallel sysplex. It's not my current day job and hasn't been for many >> moons so it would be great to get back into into for kicks (CICS :-) ) >> >>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:41 AM Lionel B. Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The T's&C's explicitly state that it is to be used for learning and may >>> NOT be used for any kind of development - including Open Source. >>> >>> I've confirmed that with two sources. >>> >>> Disappointing.... ☹ >>> >>> >>> Lionel B. Dyck <>< >>> Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com >>> Github: https://github.com/lbdyck >>> >>> “Worry more about your character than your reputation. 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