Part 1 covered the concepts — how a PDS maps to a directory, how Endevor’s package-and-promote model maps to Git’s commit-and-merge model, and the handful of commands you need to get moving: ls, cd, vi, git, chmod. This installment adds the commands you’ll reach for once you’re doing real work day to day: searching across files, checking space, watching processes, and … Read more
This is a change in previous types of content, and this post is about one of our favorite charities and youth groups: the BSA. This fall as your children are starting back to school, you might have some extra curricular activities in mind for them to peruse. Sure, there is little league football, basketball, baseball … Read more
CLM Clustering is Dead! Anyone who has worked on WebSphere App server certainly should be familiar with the deployment manager and cluster typologies. One would have thought that since RTC is a Java application, that the native WAS clustering would be a perfect fit. Unfortunately, it was not. Team concert ended support for horizontal clustering … Read more
Strongback will be hosting two presentations this year. These are in the DevOps tracks, and in the Mandalay Bay side of the conference. DAX-5162 : C-ing is Believing: Being Smart about C/C++ Development on AIX and Linux Session Type : Meet the ExpertsDate/Time : Tuesday Feb 24, 12 –12:50 PM (Pacific Time)Venue : Mandalay Bay Expo HallRoom : Dev Ops & CE … Read more
Consolidate your CSS There is no reason to have more than 3 stylesheets in your application (with a few notable exceptions). In most cases, 1 will suffice. If you have a CSS for every page, you are doing it very very wrong. CSS should be reused across multiple pages. If the page is supposed to … Read more
We’ve been having a hell of a time with Salesforce contact form spam as of late. Its been littered with junk about cheap Air Jordans, Louis Vitton bags, and other assorted hijack links. In the course of a week, we could have as many as 300 new “leads”, all of which were spam, and that … Read more
Why is your company dragging its feet to update the corporate desktops or laptops? If you are a CFO, or CIO, you are not getting the most out of your application developers, software engineers, and systems administrators. In fact, you’re paying your staff to watch progress bars. You are also more likely to lose the … Read more
I came across this almost by accident when teaching RDz to a customer recently. He wanted to know if RDz can do “column editing” like another text editor he uses, to which I replied “what’s that?”. After he described it it sound like the rectangle selection within the tool, which I knew could change a … Read more
Another posting of ours from this past year’s IBM Innovate Conference, and mentioned on the Mainframe Insights blog. Software Archaeology with RDz and RAA from Strongback Consulting ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Job Entry System The JES now shows the return code of completed jobs. This saves you significant time in tracking down which job completed, which abended, and which had other issues. You will see this in the JES filters. Also for JES, you can now resubmit directly from the context menu. Ordinarily you would just … Read more