[Nottingham] OT - developing skills on the mainframe

[Robert Davies]

On Monday 03 March 2003 11:30, you wrote:

> > What are the top five things that IBM, companies
> > using the mainframe and
> > educational establishments could do to entice people
> > (such as yourselves)
> > into learning the mainframe?
>
> public access mainframe shell accounts for programmers
> to learn on? :)
> free (electronic) manuals.
>
> IBM's effort to run linux of some of their kit should
> help in this respect, perhaps.
>
> (I think it was HP who have free accounts for
> developers to test the environment on their servers -
> not mainframes obviously - can't find it now).

IBM do to, some sort of infrastructure assistance for ISV's is normal, after 
all it's applications that sell computer hardware.