[mathgorges]

This is fascinating to me as an ex-mainframer that now works on a niche hyperscaler. I would love to learn more!

Will you let me know some of the names in the space so that I can research more? Some cursory searching only brings up some questionably relavent press releases from IBM.

[yourapostasy]

Sounds like they’re talking about running IBM Wazi on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. As far as I know, there isn’t a System z-on-a-container offering, like you install from a Helm Chart or comes to you from an OCI registry. If it is the IBM I know, it’s completely out of reach of most homelab’ers and hobbyists.

IBM Wazi As A Service is supposed to be more affordable than the self hosted version and the Z Development and Test Environment (ZD&T) offering. ZD&T is around $5000 USD for the cheapest personal edition, so maybe around $2500-3500 USD per year?

[crackez]

Look up Micro Focus Enterprise Server and Enterprise Developer. They are now owned by Rocket.

[danielmarkbruce]

I second this and know some of the folks who work on Enterprise Server. Good people. They have a partnership of some sort with AWS and there is a bunch of decent docs around Enterprise Server on AWS