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I'm interested in toying around with IBMs current mainframe offerings and found news articles from 2022 about IBM offering mainframs in the cloud as an experime

I'm interested in toying around with IBMs current mainframe offerings and found news articles from 2022 about IBM offering mainframs in the cloud as an experiment. I setup an IBM cloud account and looked around at th offered services, but could not find services related to mainframes. Probably need to be a premium customer.

skissane 2y ago
Anyone can easily get a quote from IBM Cloud for a hosted z/OS mainframe development system: 1. Go to https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/provision/vs https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/provision/vs 2. Make sure you select a Geography and Data Centre which supports z/OS. I know North America > Dallas > Dallas 2 does. Whereas Europe > Frankfurt > Frankfurt 2 doesn't. I haven't checked the others. 3. Scroll down to the "Image" section and select "Change image" 4. In the popup, you should see two button-like tabs. The default is "Intel x86s architecture", the other is "IBM Z, LinuxOne s390x architecture". Make sure you pick the s390x. If you don't see s390x as an option, it is probably not supported in your selected DC, go back to step (2) above 5. Select your desired z/OS version. Currently they offer z/OS 3.1 and z/OS 2.5. Let's just go with 3.1 – select the radio button. 6. Click "Save" at the bottom of the "Select Image" dialog 7. Now the screen will reclaculate, and you'll get a quote. Mine is, US$1,874.76 a month before the "sustained usage discount". US$1,693.06 a month afterwards. That's with very minimal CPU/storage/memory/networking/etc, you might actually need to increase those numbers to get a usable environment. And, if you are happy paying IBM US$20K+ a year, I imagine IBM will be happy to take your money. Some IBM sales rep will probably even be calling you trying to upsell.
sillywalk 2y ago
IBM does offer the Z Development and Test Environment which is an emulated mainframe for a normal x86 computer. It's $5,980.00 / year. It looks like there is some sort of free trial, and there was a learner's edition. https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment

skissane 2y ago

Anyone can easily get a quote from IBM Cloud for a hosted z/OS mainframe development system: 1. Go to https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/provision/vs https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/provision/vs 2. Make sure you select a Geography and Data Centre which supports z/OS. I know North America > Dallas > Dallas 2 does. Whereas Europe > Frankfurt > Frankfurt 2 doesn't. I haven't checked the others. 3. Scroll down to the "Image" section and select "Change image" 4. In the popup, you should see two button-like tabs. The default is "Intel x86s architecture", the other is "IBM Z, LinuxOne s390x architecture". Make sure you pick the s390x. If you don't see s390x as an option, it is probably not supported in your selected DC, go back to step (2) above 5. Select your desired z/OS version. Currently they offer z/OS 3.1 and z/OS 2.5. Let's just go with 3.1 – select the radio button. 6. Click "Save" at the bottom of the "Select Image" dialog 7. Now the screen will reclaculate, and you'll get a quote. Mine is, US$1,874.76 a month before the "sustained usage discount". US$1,693.06 a month afterwards. That's with very minimal CPU/storage/memory/networking/etc, you might actually need to increase those numbers to get a usable environment. And, if you are happy paying IBM US$20K+ a year, I imagine IBM will be happy to take your money. Some IBM sales rep will probably even be calling you trying to upsell.

sillywalk 2y ago

IBM does offer the Z Development and Test Environment which is an emulated mainframe for a normal x86 computer. It's $5,980.00 / year. It looks like there is some sort of free trial, and there was a learner's edition. https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment https://www.ibm.com/products/z-development-test-environment