Charles, Absolutely, unfortunately it seems to boil down to MONEY. Like owning a copy of z/PDT if your doing independent development. You have to somehow pay for it ...customers or someone giving you a grant ( *I wish* ) -- lol
Scott On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:28 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > They could, trivially. (Well, FSVO "trivially." A bunch of lawyer time, > but no rocket science.) > > They choose not to. I do not speak for IBM, of course, but I would guess > that they view keeping the MVS API's close to the vest constitutes a > strategic corporate asset and competitive advantage. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of scott Ford > Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 9:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: LzLabs > > All, > > Why can’t IBM or other vendors somehow license their apis so other vendors > may use them. It seems to me that would benefit a lot of customers and > vendors ? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *IDMWORKS * Scott Ford z/OS Dev. “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a friend or collegue you demean yourself” www.idmworks.com scott.f...@idmworks.com Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any printout thereof.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
