As a (very) small ISV (in the z/VM space, not z/OS or VSE), I would be much more inclined to accept IBM's statements that "they feel our pain" with respect to the problems we are all now having with the PWD program and lack of small development systems availability if I didn't keep running into things like this (from a colleague):
>Don't know whether this is a 'news': IBM has made a new z/architechture > emulator which will run on linux(Intel PC, more precisely as IBM said, a > ThinkPad/T60 running Suse) and AIX(Power). It requires a USB hardware-key > plugged in to enable the cpu and the total price is about $100. However, > it's only available to IBMers. The USB hardware device is an IBM 1090 (a.k.a, the IBM System z Personal Development Tool Adapter (zPDTA)), and the software is called the IBM System z Personal Development Tool (zPDT). It's not Flex-ES and it's not Hercules. So, for about $100, my problems as a small ISV could be solved.....wonder why IBM isn't interested in making that happen. DJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
