Sounds a little better. I, person, will wait for more info. And maybe a few posts here from people who have used it. I imagine my retirement will be filled with mind destroying video game playing. 😁
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 04:40 Laurence Chiu <lch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just received information from IBM directly on the product. Currently > it's on a dark launch in the US only but once that has been sorted out it > will be made available to the rest of the world by the end of the year. > > T&C's include (I was only provided an image of the T&C's and I can't post > this here since apparently the forum strips out images. But in essence > they are > > *What is it?* > Provide an affordable ZD&T for individual enterprise developers who want to > develop z/OS skills to be part of the mainframe ecosystem and support them > in their career success > > *How* > > Offering access to ZD&T at $120/year to vetted, advanced users for > educational purposes > > *Vetting Criteria* > > z/OS Practitioner badge and Master the Mainframe training complete > > OR > > 1-3 years of sysadmin or system programmer experience [ I would imagine > most people on this mailing list would easily fall into this category :-) ] > > *Targeted Segments* > > z/OS students and hobbyists who want a personalised zD&T for learning > purposes and support their career success. > > As an aside, while most of my systems programmer experience has been in > DB2, IMS and VM, I would like to dabble in CICS or if they offer it, look > at parallel sysplex. It's not my current day job and hasn't been for many > moons so it would be great to get back into into for kicks (CICS :-) ) > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:41 AM Lionel B. Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The T's&C's explicitly state that it is to be used for learning and may > > NOT be used for any kind of development - including Open Source. > > > > I've confirmed that with two sources. > > > > Disappointing.... ☹ > > > > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John > Wooden > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
