Re: Virtual Loaner Program (VLP) IBM's

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kirk

I've never known if you are with a vendor - at RJS, we used VLP all the 
time - it was fantastic.

Yes, I had to get PTFs ordered and applied - it took awhile, that's all. 
Otherwise, it worked fine.

You can reserve more than what you have listed here, IIRC. Of course, 
I'm not with an IBM development partner anymore - and I don't have a 
product I want to sell, so have not tried to join PW as a developer.

It's really fine, IMO. Hope you learn how good it is!

Vern

On 1/6/2014 3:58 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:
> I was wonder how many of us here have tried IBM's Virtual Loaner Program or
> VLP and you r opinions?
>
> Over the holidays I decided to see what you got for 'free'. Let's say you
> get what you pay for. I wasn't looking for a hot rod but a reasonable
> sandbox. The base image was V7R1 with 2010 PTFs and TR1. It had WebQuery
> ver 1.1.1 plus All of WDS.
> Memory was 2GB and a Single Disk Drive of about 95GB.which was like 30%full.
>
> I attempted to get PTFs current and hosed the system along the way. Guess I
> need more practice get down level 7.1 system up to current levels but that
> is a whole different thread. I let my reservation expire and 'might' try
> this all again down the road.
>
> So has anyone used the VLP for IBM i?