There appears to be some confusion. https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ says
"Announcement: Deprecating the IBM SDK for Node.js in favour of the community SDKs Now that AIX on Power, Linux on Power, and Linux on IBM Z are an integral part of the community build process – we are no longer producing a proprietary IBM SDK for these platforms, and instead can offer support for the community SDKs. Read more about this exciting development in this blog post. Want to use Node.js on z/OS? You can try it for free, or purchase the full edition which includes IBM support, find out more here. You can find downloads for Node.js on IBM platforms on the Node.js downloads page." The first paragraph seems to indicate the part? of the product is being changed to a community supported product. The second statement it says one can try it for free - not use it forever for free. The link it points to https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/sdk-nodejs-compiler-zos has button links for a 90 day trial or to contact for pricing. The third statement points to a download page on nodejs.org which seems to have binaries for node.js for Linux on Power, Linux on System z and AIX on Power, but none for z/OS. -----Original Message----- >From: Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> >Sent: Sep 10, 2018 12:52 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: Zowe needs node.js, which you have to pay for on z/OS > >Yes, Zowe needs Node.js for z/OS. Node.js for z/OS is downloadable at no >additional charge, and the Zowe documentation refers you directly to that >downloadable release at:https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ztp -- and not >to anybody's sales representative. > >Zowe is in beta release, and it's not vendor supported yet. If you want and >need to obtain a fully IBM supported release of Node.js for general >purposes, great news: it's available. Yes, there's a charge for it, but >it's a different proposition altogether. > >Zowe's commercial details haven't been announced or even all decided I >suspect (no inside information here), but it's pretty obvious to me from >the multi-party announcement that Zowe will eventually emerge in some >fashion as ubiquitous on/with z/OS. Let's see how it all shakes out, but >this particular commercial detail isn't something I worry about at all. >There are all sorts of examples of runtime environments that are both >provided at no additional charge for particular uses and available at >additional charge (sometimes only for the vendor support) for general >purpose use. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Timothy Sipples >IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, >Multi-Geography >E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
