My understanding of the question/issue:
Why MVS 3.8J? Because it is legal to use it without license.
However it is really old system.
Db2? No, there is no legal & free Db2 to run on MVS 3.8J. Dot.
"Not really free" Db2? It is illegal, that's obvious. I do not support
it, however if someone decided to use illegal Db2, why not illegal z/OS?
Besides, there are ways to use Db2 legally, on current z/OS and without
buying whole mainframe. It is paid, but not so much.
BTW: Microsoft offer a bunch of their product for students, *for free*.
Any student (even philology - that means no IT, no technical) can
install and use their OS, database, etc.
Wouldn't be possible to create student accounts on some remote z/OS system?
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 09.07.2025 o 16:50, Mark S Waterbury pisze:
In your reply you stated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Db2
Ran on DOS/VSE and VM/370 before 1983-5.
That is incorrect or misleading at best. No version of "DB2" ever ran on
DOS/VSE or VM/370 in the 1980s.
SQL/DS ran on DOS/VSE and VM/SP, but not on VM/370 or DOS/VS.
Years later, (1990s) SQL/DS was "renamed" to DB2 for VSE and DB2 for VM,
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