IBM i Wish List: Add A Virtual IBM i Platform Like System z Wazi

March 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Serendipity is a funny thing; part serene and part dippy, I suppose. I was poking around for something interesting that might be relevant to the IBM i platform, and ran across announcement letter 221-122, which was for something called IBM Wazi Developer  for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces. I had recently heard of CodeReady Workspaces because of the recent Power Systems announcements, but I had no idea what Wazi was.

What I now know is that I want this in an IBM i flavor.

There is no such thing as a portable and cheap and ubiquitous System z mainframe environment, …