For me it's a horrible news 😭 I really prefer to use Studio when explaining how to create properties (particularly relationships) and queries (particularly Class Queries based on COS) to students who see IRIS for the first and the last time during my classes. And when something goes wrong (and it does a lot of the time) it's usually easier to ask them to delete the code that produces error and rewrite it while I'm looking than to figure out what's wrong with it. And if it something more complicated than simple properties it can take a lot of time.

Besides, not all students know (and want/need to learn) how to use VS Code and look for proper plug-ins, extensions etc. It will really make my life that much harder.

This is a great opportunity to take and exam for free in a nice friendly setting. Therefore, I would definitely recommend using this opportunity.

From what I understand in the article, in Caché 5.0 and earlier versions the modern Management Portal is called System Management Portal.