Yes, Zowe needs Node.js for z/OS. Node.js for z/OS is downloadable at no additional charge, and the Zowe documentation refers you directly to that downloadable release at:https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ztp -- and not to anybody's sales representative.
Zowe is in beta release, and it's not vendor supported yet. If you want and need to obtain a fully IBM supported release of Node.js for general purposes, great news: it's available. Yes, there's a charge for it, but it's a different proposition altogether. Zowe's commercial details haven't been announced or even all decided I suspect (no inside information here), but it's pretty obvious to me from the multi-party announcement that Zowe will eventually emerge in some fashion as ubiquitous on/with z/OS. Let's see how it all shakes out, but this particular commercial detail isn't something I worry about at all. There are all sorts of examples of runtime environments that are both provided at no additional charge for particular uses and available at additional charge (sometimes only for the vendor support) for general purpose use. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
