They are pretty much the same product, ZD&T uses zPDT as the underlying emulator but depending upon which version you use, has many enhancements to provide a DevOps experience. As already pointed out, zPDT is only for ISVs and ZD&T is available to commercial entities but you are bound by the usage which tends to be only development, testing and education: from IBM:
---- It creates an environment for mainframe application demonstration, development, testing, and employee education without Z mainframe hardware ZD&T cannot be used for production workloads of any kind, nor robust development workloads, production module builds, preproduction testing, stress testing, or performance testing. ---- There are 3 versions of ZD&T: ZD&T Personal Edition - this enables a single user to run an IBM® Z distribution on a personal computer. ZD&T Enterprise Edition - this enables enterprises to host an IBM Z distribution on low-cost Intel-based x86 machines. Enterprise Edition provides a web-based interface. You can extract, deploy, and manage the application images from an existing Z or ADCD packages. ZD&T Parallel Sysplex - can be used to enable a Sysplex environment that is running within z/VM zPDT on the other hand, provide qualified PartnerWorld Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE and associated middleware products. You need to go through an approval process in order to get it. Sebastian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
