I totally agree it's too painful to set up. That's why I didn't despite the excellent work done on Hercules. I really wanted to have a mainframe running on my PC to screw with. However, the list of steps and background knowledge to even get started were ridiculous.
That's why I broached in another comment an application, VM model like we saw for VMware, etc. They have a pre-configured VM for about everything. Could do the same for various aspects of mainframes so people could selectively use or learn each piece while slowly building up understanding. Pre-configured Hercules with some good tutorials on usage might be a start if not the other model.
That's why I broached in another comment an application, VM model like we saw for VMware, etc. They have a pre-configured VM for about everything. Could do the same for various aspects of mainframes so people could selectively use or learn each piece while slowly building up understanding. Pre-configured Hercules with some good tutorials on usage might be a start if not the other model.