On 2014-11-17, at 09:27, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Not quite. At least once upon a time, adding users to z/VM was an authorized > function. At that time you could not create one or more userid's in which to > run disconnected VM's (DVM's) to act as your servers without authorization. > > Though I must admit my knowledge and experience of VM is ancient (VM/SP3), so > there may well be newer mechanisms in z/VM that permit an ordinary user to > create their own DVM userid's. > I suspect the restriction still applies, at least I've not heard otherwise. I was thinking, rather, that for your stated purpose of server testing with suitable justification you could be provided a test virtual machine in which you could run a private z/OS in which address spaces could molest each other as they chose.
-- gil
