Posts by Kenny Smith

Get Productive! Enable Filter Pools in IDz to Organize Your Datasets Better

Get Productive! Enable Filter Pools in IDz to Organize Your Datasets Better

If you’ve been using IDz for a while, you’re surely familiar with filters when browsing your MVS, JES, or Unix...

Time to upgrade your IBM Jazz environment to 7.0!

Time to upgrade your IBM Jazz environment to 7.0!

IBM has released its updated Jazz platforms, and in the process rebranded most of the tools. As of this writing...

Managing Websphere Plugin Config Files

Managing Websphere Plugin Config Files

In some recent customers we’ve had to install various IBM CLM components on different servers to balance workload for a...

Understanding how GitHub fits in a mainframe DevOps toolchain.

Understanding how GitHub fits in a mainframe DevOps toolchain.

If you work on a mainframe, you’ve almost certainly heard of CA Endeavor, Serena Changeman, IBM SCLM, or Panvalet Librarian....

Setting up IBM Jazz based tools for Token Licensing

Setting up IBM Jazz based tools for Token Licensing

I’ve recently worked with a customer who could not find good documentation on how to apply token licenses to his...

Installing IBM HTTP Server from an Archive

Installing IBM HTTP Server from an Archive

IBM now offers a new and much easier way to install IBM HTTP Server. You can now download IHS as...

Cheap ways to secure your server

Cheap ways to secure your server

Before you read too far, this article is for the average small to medium sized business. Most large organizations have...

Launching a Debug Session for an Existing Module on z/OS

Launching a Debug Session for an Existing Module on z/OS

Using IBM Developer for z Systems you can debug any language on the mainframe. For those who have taken Jon...

How to poison a blockchain, and how to prevent it.

How to poison a blockchain, and how to prevent it.

This week, the Gizmodo reported that child porn images were uploadedto the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) core ledger through the...

Setting up auto start and stop for IBM CLM tools on Windows

Setting up auto start and stop for IBM CLM tools on Windows

We’ve blogged before about starting the CLM components on Linux/Unix. Now let’s talk about staring it (and stopping it) on...

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