For about $5K per year I find Dallas to be a more attractive proposition. Real z hardware and a modest amount of support. Only restriction AFAIR is "no production data processing."
YMMV indeed. zD&T I guess would give you unlimited CPU time and all the DASD you wanted to buy (you rent additional DASD at Dallas, and pay for any extensive CPU usage). Dallas is as many TSO or CICS users as you want, IIRC, but the zD&T is limited, right? At Dallas you run as a VM guest, and I suppose that might preclude certain system software development. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 11:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM ZDNT Learner's Edition - beware ZDNT at $120/year is be attractive for developing open source z/OS software attractive if the license allows it. ZD&T Personal at $5K/year is too expensive for that purpos, although a hypothetical ZD&T FOSS version costing more than ZDNT but still only a few hundred dollars would be attractive. YMMV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
