Radoslaw, it is not a dream ! There is zUniversity program going on, it is also in Poland at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
This is from official materials - The "zSeries Europe University System" went live 8/2005 - Free online access to z/OS, z/VM and zSeries Linux to support universities running the zSeries course - Teaches zSeries, z/OS, z/VM and Linux for zSeries - Usually runs over 15 weeks with one full-day workshop per week (4-5 hours): ~65 hours teaching On 12/9/05, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: > > > Nicola, > > > > You better find a course on mainframe basics. > > > > A mainframe is a large machine with dozens or hundreds of applications > and hundreds or many thousands users. > > > > You don't logon to a mainframe, you logon to an application running on > it. All applications are different and serve their own purpose. > > > > Mainframes run business-critical applications and are highly secured, so > you probably won't find a publically accessable one. > > I can imagine that IBM could provide one, without any real business app, > just to present it. > > I don't mean wide-open, because it has no big sense, but it could be > available as univeristy program. An university could subcribe for > access, pay some "registration fee" and get remote access to z/OS guest > under VM. Not every university can afford z9, but probably near 100% > have Internet connection. > Ah, sweet dream... > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
