If you want an official answer, then ask IBM. If you want an unauthorized, unofficial opinion, then do what everyone else does and just download the jar and use it in your IDE.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:57 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > More likely you just want to cause trouble :-) > > > > Most likely. May as well, seeing as how I'm stuck at work anyway. {grin} > > > > > > > Kirk Wolf > > Dovetailed Technologies > > http://dovetail.com > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM, John McKown < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I probably shouldn't ask this and just "innocently" do it. But I'm not > > that > > > smart. So I'll ask. I use the NetBeans IDE for Java (and C/C++) > > development > > > on Linux/Intel. This is not about using NetBeans vs any other IDE, so > > lets > > > please not go there, OK? > > > > > > If I am using just "plain ole" java and using the SDK, I don't have any > > > problems using NetBeans to do what I need, and I simply do a binary > > upload > > > of the resulting Java jar file to z/OS. So far, no problems. But if I > > want > > > to do more "real" z/OS development. This means using some "non > standard" > > > libraries (jar files). In particular the "ibmjzos.jar" along with > others. > > > In order to easily use this (and other) libraries, I need to download > > them > > > to my PC and register them with NetBeans as a standard library. > > > > > > So, I am having problems determining if the above download is > > permissible. > > > We have a z/OS license. And so I know that using them and even > developing > > > with then is permissible, at least if I develop on z/OS. But I don't > want > > > to try to run NetBeans on z/OS. That's just silly. I really cannot > find a > > > decent explanation of how these Java jar libraries are licensed, > > especially > > > with respect to doing development off-platform. > > > > > > -- > > > We all have skeletons in our closet. > > > Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. > > > > > > Maranatha! <>< > > > John McKown > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -- > We all have skeletons in our closet. > Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
