Sorry about bumping an old thread (just found a message in my spam folder), but related to "IBM lessen its profits" I guess the more attention a platform gets from young people the better it will survive and hence bring profit to the company.
Imaging that every student and whizz kid could install IBM i on its laptop or PC and what it could bring to the community !
I know this discussion pops up every few years (since the early days) and it won't happen but I still consider it a big missed opportunity for IBM. Heck why not allow it to run for a few hours and then it shutsdown itself so it has no commercial value. It should only offer development capabilities like RPG/COBOL, DB2, DSPF and CL.
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 0:30
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: OS/400 on mambo emulator
Hello Vlad,
Am 27.05.2020 um 00:10 schrieb Vlad Korge <vladkorge@xxxxxxxxxx>:
I'm not sure how it works with mambo (that's why I'm asking here) but in
Hercules (http://www.hercules-390.org/) you just specify the values in the
emulator config and enjoy z/OS running on your laptop.
The IBM Mainframe Platform stems from a time where there was a lot of detailed documentation available from IBM to help people develop applications to squeeze out the last bit of possible performance from the available hardware. Also, early mainframe OS releases are available as source code, which makes it comparatively easy to deduct how stuff works. This is absolutely not comparable to the tightly closed, controlled and "kept secret" platform like the AS/400 and it's successors.
IBM is very sensitive when anybody tries to do something which could possibly lessen their profits. So I guess, out of the box, what you want to do is not possible. I can't prove, though.
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