David Crayford wrote: >There is no free WLP. Were you aware that Open Liberty is available under the Eclipse Public License?
https://www.openliberty.io Open Liberty was introduced about a year ago now. Yes, Open Liberty is tested and compatible with z/OS (and with Linux on Z and LinuxONE). The EPL is an OSI and FSF recognized license. If you have a commercial product and would like to use Open Liberty as its runtime, that's perfectly fine and no charge. WebSphere Liberty and CICS Liberty exploit certain z/OS features that Open Liberty does not. Thus you have some choices depending on what you'd like to achieve. As examples, you could (not necessarily mutually exclusive): 1. Distribute and fully support your commercial product with Open Liberty for those customers that don't want/need the deeper z/OS integration in IBM's commercial Liberty products, but also support customers who prefer to deploy your product on WebSphere Liberty, CICS Liberty, or WebSphere Application Server. 2. Distribute an unsupported trial, demonstration, or basic variant of your commercial product with Open Liberty, and then license/support customers who run your full commercial product on WebSphere Liberty, CICS Liberty, or WebSphere Application Server that they separately obtain from IBM, with IBM support. 3. Contact IBM to obtain a distribution license for WebSphere Liberty for your software product, with IBM typically providing you with "Level 3" support. 4. Distribute your open source software with open source Open Liberty to everybody, including to z/OS users. 5. Distribute your software product on its own, but provide instructions and support for running it using Open Liberty, WebSphere Liberty, CICS Liberty, and WebSphere Application Server. ("Don't have Liberty Profile or WebSphere Application Server yet? No problem. Visit https://www.openliberty.io and....") >IBM don't give away freebies on z/OS. IBM keeps adding lots of no additional charge features to z/OS. How about the IBM Toolkit for Swift on z/OS as one recent example? The Community Edition is available at no additional charge and, yes, licensed for production use: https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/products/ibm-toolkit-swift-z-os/ In this particular case, if you'd like optional IBM support services, there's a separate charge. Here's another example that I didn't even know about until 30 seconds ago (as I write this): the free (for 90 days) IBM z/OS Software Checker to provide you with a simple report of your z/OS software inventory. It's a no charge subset of IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS (circa 2016). Here's where you can download it: https://ibm.biz/BdHBSS If you want to run a report once or a few times within 90 days, and then never use it again -- because you're doing some sort of upgrade and want to run a report for an auditor? -- fine, you're allowed, no problem. To pick a few more examples, various fonts used to be separately chargeable for z/OS, but now they're included in the base and sometimes useful even if you aren't printing to paper. The IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS is part of the base z/OS operating system, and IBM Doc Buddy is free of charge ( https://ibmdocbuddy.mybluemix.net), whereas their ancestors in the BookManager family were chargeable. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is part of the base operating system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
