'Personal use' z/OS has been a recurring theme at SHARE for some time. IBM is loath to attach words like 'free' or 'personal' to anything in the mainframe world. What's been made available for individuals is still too costly for hobby/tinkerer use, especially compare with other platforms. ;-(
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken) I could not agree more. But they don't ask me. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken) Charles Mills wrote: > And yes, you can say there would not be a labor crisis if mainframe > shops were willing to pay and train more, but we live in the world we > live in, not the world we would like to live in. Organized training is good, but it's just a drop in the bucket compared to someone getting their hands on their own system for as much time as they want. I think a key to mainframe growth (maybe its survival?) is for IBM to figure out a way to allow free home usage of z/OS, z/VM, CICS, etc. on Hercules, without affecting their paid-for market. That's how people learn Windows/Linux/Android/etc these days - everything they need is cheap or free. And who knows, if z/OS was available for home use, maybe some young whipersnapper would have already written the z/OS equivalent of Inno Setup or apt-get or yum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
