Lindy writes: >As an IBM development partner could you get an >even bigger break on the software costs? Why not >the entire range of z/OS software like with the >ADCD collection? If IBM would give you this to >do development for little or no cost then there >would be little need for an emulation machine.
Yes, agreed. As Dave Jones points out, PWD would provide development licenses at a very attractive price. I had a slightly different goal in mind with that blog post, a "home mainframe" with full license rights for time sharing, commercial use (such as hosting a Web site), etc. I assumed those uses would fall outside the PWD agreement. Either way it is an interesting thought exercise -- and, I hope, more than that if/when I open my personal data center. :-) One thing I didn't consider is whether it would be possible to set up PWD LPARs alongside full commercially licensed z/OS.e LPARs, on the same system. That might be another way to go for the CICS, IMS, COBOL, PL/I application development resources while still providing commercial capabilities under z/OS.e (for Web hosting, as an example). Re: disk, there are boxes such as these: http://www.bustech.com/products/zdasd-3990-controller.asp http://www.luminex.com/products/virtualblue/3990.htm For a home mainframe that might work. For business use it's another question. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
