>His offered "solution" was that IBM granted free access to its POWER cloud.
Yeah the mainframe community asked ibm to open some newer systems >24bit but ibm told them they want to provide the community with new "actual" software...out of that came that stupid program called "master the mainframe" or "IBM Z Xplore" it's unbelievable that they are so tone-deaf even to the most loyal IBM fans...IBM is the perfect example of a marketing/management and anti-engineer company (as of today), they really deserve to have a slow death.
Yeah the mainframe community asked ibm to open some newer systems >24bit but ibm told them they want to provide the community with new "actual" software...out of that came that stupid program called "master the mainframe" or "IBM Z Xplore" it's unbelievable that they are so tone-deaf even to the most loyal IBM fans...IBM is the perfect example of a marketing/management and anti-engineer company (as of today), they really deserve to have a slow death.