Anthony Thompson wrote: >Timothy Sipples may have more to add. I do, a little.
First of all, if IBM Program Number 5655-AAB (IBM z/OS Platform for Apache Spark) is still available from IBM ShopZ, you might as well order it, now. There's no additional charge for that program number. But if it's still available, it'll be a "happy accident," because IBM withdrew this program number from marketing on September 11, 2017. Fortunately there's a much newer and better version of Apache Spark available, and it includes Anaconda and Python. That whole package is called IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS, IBM Program Number 5655-OD1. IzODA became generally available on September 8, 2017. There is a (modest) charge for this one, but at the same time IBM introduced a no charge, zero install trial, available here: https://www.ibm.com/systems/z/trials.html More information here: https://izoda.github.io Watson & Walker's Spark-SMF landing page is here: http://watsonwalker.com/software/watson-walker-spark-zos-support/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z and LinuxONE, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
