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. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
