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IBM Power Systems Development - Merlin team
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. Having a trial to check out Merlin before doing the purchase would speed adoption -- the suggestion among the comments of having a Sandbox is also an excellent idea to avoid the need to take the time to set it up to try it out.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
> What about a "Sandbox" type system?
I agree. It might be similar to "Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift". Hopefully the Sandbox can be utilized with on-premise IBM i.
Good suggestion. What about a "Sandbox" type system? Maybe create a cloud instance of Merlin connected to a cloud IBM i and let people sign up for actual user ID's and let users play around in the sandbox? That way people wouldn't even have to install anything to get to evaluate it. But this is probably much more complicated not to mention an authority nightmare. Just a thought.