Re: porting C library to Power i

Don't know where you have been looking John but this page http://www.zend.com/en/solutions/modernize-ibm-i has a download button.

This page http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/editions-ibm-i is linked from within the text on that page. That highlights that 12 months free support is included.

The "Try for free" button on the "Basic" option takes you to the download page. Select IBM i and away you go.

Note - it is a LICPGM so it needs an admin instal.

The way it currently works is this. During your 30 day initial period it runs as the full Zend Server with all the monitoring, batch job submission, and performance bells and whistles. After 30 days you can either buy a license for the full version or get a key from Zend which will allow it to run as the basic server. IBM pay for the license and the support that goes with it. The support is good for 12 months. After 12 months you just use web forum support (here and on Zend's own site) or pay for a support contract.

Hope that makes it clear. The install is very easy and they now have a good set of 5250 menu options to control the servers etc. As long as the pre-reqs are in place install is a breeze (it was nasty in the early releases). Maintenance is via the normal PTF process.

As an IBM i user you also have a free license to Zend Studio that is good for a year. After that it continues to work but you don't get any updates or fixes unless you pay for the license.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:56 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, it is "free" if neither I or my company have to pay for it. Since any monies due to Zend are paid by IBM I don't see why you would say that it is not free. Many of my clients use it - only a few pay for the full Zend Server offering. Surely it is every bit as "free" as the other OS components supplied by IBM?

I think it's mainly down to me not being able to decipher from the
Zend site what you actually need. Every so often I think "hmm... I
haven't checked Zend out in a while, lemme go look", and this thread
was the latest thing to nudge me in that direction. So I Googled and
all I found was different levels of trialware. Now you're telling me
it's free, so I went over again, and looked more carefully... and I
notice there is this verbiage (which ought be a sentence, but what's a
terminating period between friends?):

"The Zend Server for IBM i Basic is available for free to all IBM i
users who want to get started with PHP on IBM i"

And immediately below that is a more graphical feature summary of the
Basic level which prominently has a "Try for FREE" button. So... is it
try for free and then keep for free? Why not just have a button that
doesn't imply trialware? Often "getting started" is a euphemism for
"while you're learning, but the terms change if you want to use it in
production".

So, if it really is free, then I apologize for misrepresenting it.

P.S. iSeries Python is great - but as a newbie to the language I want to stick to the latest version

There is nothing wrong with that. But one thing I really appreciated
about the "getting started with iSeriesPython" experience that I'm not
getting with ANY other open-source offering on the i is: It's small,
simple, and quick to install. Anyone can do it, even me. The entire
thing is installable in literally just a few minutes. By me!

And that is the same experience I had when I got started with Python
on Windows. Small, simple, quick. From zero to kicking the tires in
literally minutes. You can have the same experience with Python on
your Mac. And I expect that you'll be able to install most Python
packages on your Mac by using just pip, no muss, no fuss. (Or, if you
prefer the giant-but-luxurious experience, you can get nicely polished
bundles like Anaconda by Continuum Analytics.)

I cannot even install IBM's Python on the i here at work (because I'm
not an admin, not because we are on a too-old operating system). So of
course I cannot install any of the other open source stuff from IBM
either. I tried to install PHP once before, but the process was slow
and ultimately unsuccessful. I have no doubt that it is very nice once
it is all set up properly. I just haven't been able to get to that
point.

John Y.
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