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Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by erk__ on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:34AM (#27972923)
IBM has a event where you can get access to a mainframe and complete different tasks https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the...

You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud

Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by vbezhenar on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:05AM (#27973319)
> You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud

What's the point? VM with linux is hardly interesting to anyone.

Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by exikyut on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:39AM (#27996391)
Amusingly, I signed up for this a couple days ago (https://mtm.masterthemainframe.com/), which worked fine at the time, but the following day when I went to follow up I discovered the HTTPS cert had expired :D

That was several hours ago. The site's still down.

Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by exikyut on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:45AM (#27997875)
UPDATE: THE DOMAIN EXPIRED HAHAHA

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210729160256/https://mtm.maste...

Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by exikyut on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:46AM (#28006924)
Update-update: Bureaucracy, Inc™ has belatedly noticed and exercised untold power to bring the domain back in a great hurry.

Everything's back to exactly how it was before, even down to using "" (ie, empty string) where my name should be. Excellent.

I must say that site responsiveness is much, much slower than it was when it was serving spam. :D

Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by erk__ on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:20PM (#28009591)
That is pretty amusing, I also just received a mail from them telling me that my opinion was important to them. Heh
Re:IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hyb... by erk__ on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:18PM (#27974211)
I used it when I was doing some porting of smaller programs to run on z/Architecture for example setting up the de/compression co-processor correctly. It's true that Linux on x86 or arm is not unusual, but this is Linux on Z