Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com EDIT: I posted a TL;DR version of this (including screen-shots!) as a LinkedIn article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-changes-git-repository-access-codeready-workspaces-vic-cross. If you've come here from that article, thanks for your interest in the details of my experience! As part of the setup of an environment for a customer workshop, I installed Red Hat CodeReady … Continue reading Making changes to Git repository access in CodeReady Workspaces
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I have been using LDAP as a central data store for a very long time. Back when I had a home Asterisk PBX, I had an LDAP directory that functioned as a household phone book and source of caller-ID data for the IP phones installed through the home. This LDAP directory was also the authentication … Continue reading LDAP on z/VM as an Open Authentication Source
My Linux-based Large-Scale Cloning Grid experiment, which I've implemented four times now (don't ask, unless you are ready for a few looooooong stories), has three main components to it. The first, which provides the magic by which the experiment can even exist, is the z Systems hypervisor z/VM. The second is the grist on the … Continue reading Programming decisions
It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
Some folks might be a bit affronted at the "compare and contrast" of z Systems and a fast food drive-through, but it's just an analogy...
Earlier this year (30 March, to be precise) Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11gR2 was available as a fully-supported product for Linux on IBM System z. A while before that they had announced E-Business Suite as available for Linux on System z, but at the time the database behind it had to be 10g. Shortly after 30 … Continue reading Oracle Database 11gR2 on Linux on System z
The next phase in tidying up my user authentication environment in the lab was to enable SSL/TLS on the z/VM LDAP server I use for my Linux authentication (I'll discuss the process on the DeveloperWorks blog, and put a link here). Apart from being the right way to do things, LDAP authentication appears to require SSL or TLS in … Continue reading What a difference a working resolver makes
I posted on my developerWorks blog about an experience I had sharing an OSA port in Layer 2 mode. Thrilling stuff. What's more thrilling is the context of where I had my OSA-port-sharing experience: my large-scale Linux on System z cloning experiment. One of these days I'll get around to writing that up.
This post comes to you from the Cathay Pacific lounge in Hong Kong airport. Around 8 weeks have passed since my last post, and I'm pretty disgusted with myself at how little (read: not at all) I blogged when I was in the US and China. In fact, by the looks of things the site … Continue reading Back in the saddle again…
(okay, so after fixing the blog now that I discover it's been down for two days, I might as well update it...) I'm in Poughkeepsie for a couple of ITSO projects. For the last week I've been working on the development of material for the ITSO's Workshop World Tour. I'm helping out with the "System … Continue reading Doing the New York thing
Crossed Wires 