IBM Champions

As IBM Champion you will get access to https://techzone.ibm.com/home

Here you can reserve a virtual environment for training/evalution See https://techzone.ibm.com/my/reservations

This is what I use the Techzone for. Easy way to validate product capapbilities.

@Ronald Hereema, do you have any information on how to request demos / environments? The doc links I found were broken.

Even the search links on Tech Zone are dead https://techzone.ibm.com/search

I just checked. I can see my running reservation but indeed there is no option to request a new reservation based on a template.
Most likely that is limited due to the onboarding of the 2026 Champions.

My advice would be to submit a support ticket so IBM can help you.

Yes I know

Even when given a direct link to a reservation, when I try to reserve, it asks me for information like Sales Opportunity Number.  

I recall in one of the Champions calls there was a walkthrough of the onboarding process....but I can't seem to find that replay.

A Sales Opportunity number is needed when you want to spin up an environment that will last beyond the 2-7 days.

Check the four oiption for details on use and yes, it's a short time. Max a week and it depends on the option you choose.

For the past few days, it has no longer been possible to create deployments for training or testing purposes. What is the alternative?

I reported it to Libby, and Namitha is looking into it.  They've asked the TZ folks to update the docs.

I can go as far as seeing a 'list', but no luck when I try to actual create a deployment.