Yumechi | ゆめち 
I just heard about IBM has a #zxplore program where you can play with a real z/OS environment 
They really tried to rebrand themselves from the "necessary evil legacy mainframe" to something supposedly "always open, always secure"
And then immediately provision me an 8 character case insensitive password, I mean I might know the reason is RACF but if you are attracting "new talent" they just see it as terrible security practice.
And w.r.t. always open, 3 hours in I have yet to see a single web-ready API like they are teaching me in https://www.ibm.com/community/z/talent/essentials/ , it is almost like they themselves are not that confident in shipping a z/OS native service (by their own words "always secure") to the internet.
They have an API call ordering mini-quiz inside which I am not authorized to reproduce, but if you click in any developer with reasonable experience they would feel this is exactly how not to design a high volume transactional system (checking for the inventory, confirming the order and then updating the inventory, huh?
).
They really tried to rebrand themselves from the "necessary evil legacy mainframe" to something supposedly "always open, always secure"
And then immediately provision me an 8 character case insensitive password, I mean I might know the reason is RACF but if you are attracting "new talent" they just see it as terrible security practice.
And w.r.t. always open, 3 hours in I have yet to see a single web-ready API like they are teaching me in https://www.ibm.com/community/z/talent/essentials/ , it is almost like they themselves are not that confident in shipping a z/OS native service (by their own words "always secure") to the internet.
They have an API call ordering mini-quiz inside which I am not authorized to reproduce, but if you click in any developer with reasonable experience they would feel this is exactly how not to design a high volume transactional system (checking for the inventory, confirming the order and then updating the inventory, huh?
).
Elizabeth K. Joseph
