Actually, Mark, some z/OS resources have been provided over the last few years. It was just not widely advertised. The Zowe project has been using a z13 at Marist for several years. Node.js and OpenJDK projects as well. On the Linux side, the LinuxOne Community Cloud regularly supports over 1500 servers for short term work. There is also a private cloud that supports ISVs who establish a relationship with IBM. That one has over 200 instances. Then, there are the systems that I have provided to the Linux Foundation projects for many years. That continues to be very active.
I'm not involved with the new machine so I don't know exactly what is being planned for it. Just wanted to point out that there have been resources for a long time and they are going to continue, in case there was any confusion. Martha Martha McConaghy Marist: System Architect/Technical Lead Marist College IT Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 ________________________________ From: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> on behalf of Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:05 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Subject: Open Mainframe Project will be making a z15 available for all Open Source projects Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main At the Linux Foundation's Open Mainframe Project meeting this week, it was announced that beginning in 2023, the OMP will have a z15 available for any Open Source project that wants to make use of it. According to the announcement at https://www.openmainframeproject.org/press/2022/09/21/open-mainframe-announces-new-mainframe "...this mainframe infrastructure will be available for broad open source projects as a development, test, and continuous delivery environment, enabling developers within these communities to be able to support both z/OS and Linux on s390x." The z15 will be hosted at Marist College, adding to their already good-sized menagerie of IBM Z hardware. The hardware is being donated by Broadcom Mainframe Software Division. While we've had similar resources available for Linux-based OSS projects for some time, this is the first that I'm aware of the availability of no-cost access to IBM Z hardware for z/OS-based Open Source developers. It will be interesting to see if any more z/OS-based OSS projects come along to make use of this. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
