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Notes from twenty years in the field

Working notes from real z/OS engagements — Endevor-to-Git migrations, DBB builds, IDz performance, code pages, and mainframe CI/CD. The same knowledge we bring to yours.

Publishing to WebSphere issue: “Upload is not to…”

This has been an issue that has plagued me a few times. The problem is that when you are publishing from Rational Application Developer to a remote WAS instance, you get a message "Failure Uploading Archive to Server", and in the server logs, you see: Download is not from …/config/temp/download configuration repository: /publishrecord.remote Upload is … Read more

LDAP Problem…

Well, I have been able to get Portal working with my own Domino LDAP, but our Lab Domino LDAP seems to be the culprit in why I can’t get the demo box up and running. After uninstalling, rebooting and doing the LDAP setup 3 times, I continue coming to the same problem.This is the message … Read more

Portal 6 and Application Server 6.1 disconnect

Right before Portal 6 was released, IBM released WebSphere Application Server 6.1, which runs on Java 5. In that release are many performance enhancements. If you do any wsadmin scripting, you should be familiar with JACL and Jython scripting. Well, IBM has deprecated the JACL interface in favor of Jython. With Jython being a much … Read more