[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

[Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake)]

On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 4:24:47 PM UTC-8, Dan Cross wrote:
> > 
> >IBM also has a variety of badges and certificates you can get by taking courses in their catalog on COBOL, LinuxONE, REXX, z/OS system 
> >administration, and more. Many of those courses give you Web remote access to a time-limited Windows VM on an intranet that connects to their 
> >student account they create for you automatically when you sign up for the course, with a pre-configured Windows 3270 emulator. The Z Xplore 
> >courses also give you a student account but show you how to connect from your own PC/Linux/Mac. I'm still working through the Z Xplore 
> >courses. 
> 
> Sounds very time limited. :-( 

The LinuxONE free accounts are definitely time limited. They get deleted after 120 days and then you can just request a new one. The Z Xplore accounts seem to last forever, or at least mine hasn't been deleted after well over a year. There's a page you can go to reset the password. It's also the same account across all the challenges (except for the LinuxONE ones).

The other IBM z/OS badge programs are different, and I think those accounts (the ones accessed through a temporary provisioned Windows cloud desktop) do get reset/deleted fairly quickly.