That's very interesting. Looks like the personal edition might be a good tool to get new developers familiar with the environment. And then maybe Enterprise edition if we want to offload some development work from the host.
However is not clear to me how you would do applications development on the platform if you were using a third party source code management product. Would you be able to install that on the environment or have to download all the source code and copy books to this environment to be able to do test compiles? Also does all IBM software run on the environment or only a subset? Also one of the projects we would be looking at is spinning up our first sysplex. It would be cool to be able to do that using ZDG&T Parallel Sysplex but the application we want to test in this Plex is not from IBM and I have no idea how you would get it to run. Still food for thought. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:44 PM Sebastian Welton <sebast...@welton.de> wrote: > 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 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
