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  • 1.  Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Mon July 14, 2025 09:26 AM

    Hi all:

    I would like to know the price of zPDT software, because I cann't find an IBM website that says something about this issue.

    Please, let me something about this issue.

    Thank you very much.



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    MANUEL BOENTE GROBA
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  • 2.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Tue July 15, 2025 09:17 AM

    Suggest that you contact your IBM Representative on this subject...

    The following provides insight to the ISV Program and the zPDT Hardware / Software.

    Program Development Tool for Independent Software Vendors (zPDT)

    https://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTTPD1.DSN01.PUBLIC.ADCD.SHTML(A00AWELC)'

    Since the environment is an emulator when new hardware models are created it takes a little while for the zPDT emulator and the ADCD to catch up.

    There are other IBM programs that offer access to real IBM z Hardware which may be of interest as well.  

    BTW - The zPDT platform is for Development Only - No Production work. The environment is great for most general development work.      

    The approval process was part of the IBM Developer Assistance Program now the program looks to be under the IBM z and LinuxOne (ZOPD): 

    https://zlpn.ibm.com/zopd-application-form/ 

    But as mentioned before - best to work directly with IBM to gain access to one of their programs for the zPDT.  



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    Steve Able
    Director of Strategy and Architecture
    Adaptigent formally GT Software, Inc.
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  • 3.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Tue July 15, 2025 04:20 PM
    Edited by Luis Carlos Silva Tue July 15, 2025 04:28 PM

    Hi,

    zPDT is not available directly from IBM, but from one of our partners.

    I recommend contacting ITC as they are the only IBM partner SIs can use to leverage zPDT.

    Best regards,


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    Luis Carlos Silva
    IBM ZD&T, ZVDT and On-Demand Environments Product Manager
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  • 4.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Wed July 16, 2025 08:13 AM

    Slightly off-topic, but I would like to know when the ZD&T Learners Edition will be available again. When I had it, it was a great learning tool that helped me upgrade my mainframe skills, but alas, IBM discontinued it after about two years. The web page for ZD&T, https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment, still says "Learner's Edition is currently being updated and will return soon."



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    Mark Regan
    Consultant, z/OS Network Software
    Regan Consulting
    DUBLIN OH
    6144936313
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  • 5.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Wed July 16, 2025 08:17 AM
    I'd second the request to bring back the Learner's Edition.

    And also add that when / if it is brought back it is made available worldwide, not only in the US.

    I've been using zXplore to sharper my mainframe skills, particularly in the area of new technology.  But where this doesn't help is in learning the core fundamentals of installing / managing the base systems.   And nobody in my "day job" is going to let me break one of their LPARs !!!

    And it is difficult to get new admin people on the platform, which is going to make it difficult to keep the platform going long term.

    Phil



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  • 6.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Thu July 17, 2025 11:47 AM

    I would also like to know this.

    A worldwide edition of Learner's Edition would be great.



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    Alexandru Popescu
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  • 7.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted 16 days ago

    As a 40-year veteran of the platform, and a second-generation IBMer (my dad was a field engineer in large systems from 1955 to 1991), I also would like to have a "hobby mainframe" for personal use.  I use the MVS 3.8j public system.  It runs very well but is limited to 24-bit mode.  I learned on 24-bit MVS back in college but I can't explore the true depth of zArchitecture.  Like another poster said, companies take a dim view of people who crash their LPARs and very few people have an opportunity to create their own.

    I'm not the first one to say this over the past 20 years but it bears repeating until it gets taken seriously: IBM should pay closer attention to what occurred starting with Java in 1995.  It was free for personal use and there is no lack of Java developers today.  Hundreds, maybe thousands, of open source projects since then have no problem finding qualified developers and administrators.



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    Bruce McKnight
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  • 8.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted 16 days ago

    Amen!

     

    +1

     

    Not just Java, but also Linux, same story.

     

    And Windows. Although it was not free, the theory is that MS looked the other way at all of the pirated copies, because they knew it was making Windows nearly universal.

     

    Charles Mills | Chief Development Officer

    Phone: 707-291-0908
    Toll Free: 877-245-4322
    Email: charles.mills@cloudcompiling.com
    www.CloudCompiling.com

     

     




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  • 9.  RE: Know the price of zPDT software

    Posted Wed July 16, 2025 11:38 AM

    The way to get ZPDT is to work through the IBM partner program.  The front portal is https://zlpn.ibm.com/public/  This shows the various ways partners can get access to Z and LinuxONE resources.  



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    Rosalind Radcliffe
    IBM Fellow, CTO for IBM CIO Techology Platform Team
    IBM
    Durham
    919-695-5180
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