On 2015-02-18 16:01, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Phil Sidler wrote:
Try DeZhi @ http://www.efglobe.com/cgi-bin/mainframe/mainuser
Interesting. Very interesting. First time I see a free mainframe, but it is
an ancient z/OS v1.06. But hey, I see those admins are not taking any
nonsenses from newbies, like not allowing using DITTO on Ucats. ;-)
It's actually an ADCD system, but then again who cares... By the way, it's
pretty stable, as this line copied from Mark Zelden's IPLINFO shows:
The last IPL was Sunday 2013-12-01 (2013.335) at 15:13:47 (444 days ago).
Before the system was locked down very hard a few years ago, users could do
about anything, including shutting it down...
Nowadays most of the new users are, or seem to be, dumped on the system by
fly-by-night(?) Indian (and lately, Brazilian) training institutes that don't
want to pay for access to a real and up-to-date z/OS system. And it seems some
Indian outsourcing companies also prefer their trainees to cause S722 abends or
looping jobs (the record, now a few years ago, is a job that ran for nearly four
weeks, using 99% CPU) on other systems than their own.
Robert
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