This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides both introductory
information and technical details for ISV IBM Z® Program
Development Tool (IBM zPDT®), which produces a small IBM zSystems
environment that is suitable for application development.ISV zPDT
is a personal computer (PC) Linux application.When ISV zPDT is
installed on Linux, normal IBM zSystems operating systems (such as
IBM z/OS®) may be run on it.ISV zPDT provides the basic IBM
zSystems architecture and