This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides both introductory information and technical details for the IBM System z® Personal Development Tool (IBM zPDT®), which produces a small System z environment suitable for application development. zPDT is a PC Linux application. When zPDT is installed (on Linux), normal System z Operating Systems (such as IBM z/OS®) may be run on it. zPDT provides the basic System z architecture and provides emulated IBM 3390 disk drives, 3270 interfaces, OSA interfaces, and so forth.

The systems that are discussed in this document are complex, with elements of Linux (for the underlying PC machine), IBM z/Architecture® (for the core zPDT elements), System z I/O functions (for emulated I/O devices), z/OS (the most common System z operating system), and various applications and subsystems under z/OS. We assume that the reader is familiar with general concepts and terminology of System z hardware and software elements, and with basic PC Linux characteristics.

This book provides the primary documentation for zPDT and corresponds to zPDT V1 R9, commonly known as GA9.

This book was produced in the International Technical Support Center (ITSO), Poughkeepsie. The author was Bill Ogden:

Bill Ogden is a retired Senior Technical Staff Member who continues to work part time with projects he enjoys. These include working with new mainframe users and entry-level systems.

The following people contributed substantially to this book:

Keith VanBenschoten, IBM Poughkeepsie, is the technical leader who provides zPDT test systems and the zPDT installation processes and tools.

Theodore Bohizic, IBM Poughkeepsie, is a Senior Technical Staff Member responsible for much of the design and implementation of zPDT.

Frank Kyne, with Watson and Walker, provides much-needed Sysplex assistance.

Alena Yampolskaya, IBM Poughkeepsie, is a member of the zPDT development team and has been very helpful in resolving questions about new commands and functions.

Victor Penacho, IBM San Jose, has contributed performance techniques and details for evaluation of these enhancements.

George Darling. IBM Poughkeepsie, contributes updates and understand of I/O elements and specific z System architecture.

 

 

 

 

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