From time to time, I've run z/OS on the System z machines I have access to. Originally this was by obtaining the ADCD distribution (which I think stands for Application Development Customised Distribution, and there's a hyphen or a slash in the name somewhere...
As I write this, I'm sitting in the Qantas Club lounge in Sydney Airport. For the last week I've been working with a customer installing a new IBM zEnterprise 114. It was a great week, full of learning and new experiences for both my colleague from the customer and me. But as the highs of … Continue reading Update on my illness
Ever since work issued me a Lenovo T61 and I installed Fedora on it, I have lamented the loss of something that X afficionados referred to as "Zaphod mode". By gluing together a few different software and hardware components I managed to get close to the old Zaphod mode days -- but first some background... … Continue reading DisplayLink and x2x brings back Zaphod mode
This is perhaps the hardest thing I've ever had to write. There is a lot of emotion behind the words I write here, and I'm trying to keep that out. If you were expecting the latest snippet of technical insight from me, I'm sorry. Maybe next time. This post is about me. In the first … Continue reading Hi, I’m Vic… and I have depression
As I type this, 2011 draws to a close (in this timezone at least) -- in fact if I keep going long enough it'll be my first post to span two years. I would like to have blogged a bit more in 2011. It's not like I had any shortage of things to write about, … Continue reading Another year over…
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
In 2009 I was part of the team that produced the Redbook "Security for Linux on System z" (find it at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247728.html ). Part of my contribution was a discussion about using the z/VM LDAP Server to provide Linux...
I realised I never came back and reported the results of my OpenSSL "speed" testing after our 2096 got upgraded. For reference, here was the original chart, from when the system was sub-capacity: ... and the...
I had two book-related experiences today, one of which was obvious and prompted this post. The other I had almost forgotten about, but should not have. First, the one I forgot. I went to the shopping centre today (Garden City, in Upper Mt Gravatt) with my seven-year-old son. On the way there we were discussing … Continue reading My local Borders is no more
Crossed Wires 