Re: Free/Cheap Midrange access?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<vendor response>

www.iDevCloud.com  - We have options for a shared partition or dedicated 
partition. Up to IBM i 7.2.

I think we hit your entire list AND you get DBU. :-)

We don't add packages to PASE but if you get a dedicated partition you 
can add at will.

VPN is available a small extra cost.

</vendor response>

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 5/28/2015 10:30 AM, Justin Dearing wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I was a night shift AS/400 operator a little over a decade ago, then
> through a long and windy road through unix administration, PHP, .NET and
> Python development I find myself involved again with the IBMi in a
> consultant developer capacity. I'd like a personal account or LPAR to play
> around with.
>
> I already signed up for http://www.holgerscherer.de/ but i see its and old
> OS (V5). I'm also not sure what it has PASE wise. I was hoping someone
> could recommend some free or cheap options for me.
>
> Here is the wish list that if something could fulfill I'd pay $5-$10 a
> month for:
>
>     - Greenscreen access (via ssl or vpn)
>     - Printer access (to use LPD5250 to print stuff to files)
>     - A library with read/write access
>     - Local DB2 access
>     - MySQL Access
>     - DB2 Connect so I could make odbc calls from windows
>     - PHP
>     - ssh and sftp access to PASE/IFS
>     - qntc (via VPN I'm not gonna use SMB over the open internet)
>     - PASE system with enough packages to make a former unix admin
>     comfortable
>     - vim
>        - bash or zsh
>        - X11 stuff
>        - gcc/make/etc so I can build the stuff not installed.
>        - I hear python is supported now, so I'd like that.
>     - Some methodology of transferring SAVFs to and from the system.
>     - Open outbound TCP access from the IBMi to the open internet. e.g. I'd
>     like to be able to call remote web services from php running on the I.
>
>
> Does anyone know of something that fulfills some/most/all of that list?
>
>
> Justin