This is an explanatory page describing the resource and providing links to the 
actual zXplore site:

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore

This is the site itself:

https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com/

It is IBM's replacement for their "Master the Mainframe" learning environment.

The "challenges" are relatively simple but still a bit of fun for those of us 
with lots of z/OS experience.  The learning curve for me was the VSCode 
interface to zowe, but having learned quite a bit about it while using the site 
I found that environment very useful and functional.

No particularly burdensome T&C's but it is designed for learning, not for 
unfettered development (no TSO or ISPF access at this time, for instance).  
There are limits to how much of the z/OS resources you can use, and there are 
warnings that abusers will be banned.

It runs at the Dallas RDP center, so there are also bi-weekly maintenance 
windows of about 6 hours on a weekend.

Peter

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 8:37 AM
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Subject: Re: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:36:16 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
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>    ... the IBM student site zXplore.  ....
> 
I hadn't heard of this before.  What are its capabilities?  T&C?

Thanks,
gil
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