John, There was a previous discussion about JZOS licensing in this forum in the December, 2017, thread "JZOS on open systems question." I recommend reading through that thread in the archives if you haven't already. However, to net it out, JZOS is part of the "IBM SDK for z/OS, Java Technology Edition." The SDK license agreement points you to a "REDIST" file in the SDK for information on what you're allowed to redistribute, and under what license terms. That REDIST information should provide an official "green light" for what you propose (development/IDE use) -- and thanks for asking and double checking.
FYI, IBM's official developer portal explains how to find ibmjzos.jar and add it to Eclipse: https://developer.ibm.com/zsystems/documentation/java/jzos/jzos-set-up/ However, to my knowledge there are no license terms that restrict ibmjzos.jar development use solely to Eclipse IDEs. There are several Java IDEs, and NetBeans is a popular one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
