by prino » Sat 06 Jul 2013, 14:12
FanDeZhi is not to be used for training purposes, it's a system that allows people who already know z/OS to work on things that they would not normally be able to work on (Ze'ev Atlas ported the open source Perl Compatible Regular Expressions to z/OS), others use it to keep their skills reasonably current while they are out of work.
FanDeZhi is run by a tiny group of people, and until the power outage a few weeks ago it had been running continuously for more than a year, we, the admins, simply do not want to have to keep any eye on newbies and people who are put onto the system by unscrupulous corner-of-the-street "training" providers, who actually charge people to use a free resource, without actually bothering to train them. As an example, the last few days we've had a substantial number of users on the system that used their profile dataset to store COBOL source, and one even managed to use (and destroy) his ISPTLIB by using it as an output load library for the linker.
The simple fact is, you get 42 screens with do's and dont's when you log on to the system. If you cannot be bothered to read them, and the rules posted here on the forum, you have no future working with z/OS!