Yep, somewhat out of reach for home use for a retired ex main-framer.
Oh, well worse case scenario is just staying with MVS under Hercules, at least it is free and works well under Linux. Pity the only Cobol compiler is ANSI Cobol and I still remember that being a god in the 70's ) .... It has not changed.
Vince > On 04/23/2015 02:12 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:
So the minimal zPDT cost, including at least $1K-$2K outlay for purchase of one of the few approved hardware platforms for running zPDT, is $5-6K for 1st year, $3,750 per year for later years -- but you have to be associated with a qualified IBM ParnerWorkd independent software vendor company. The price at least seems to be coming down, but still not something targeted for personal experimental use.
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