UrbanCode Deploy + Ansible = Better Together for IBM Z Since IBM acquired Red Hat in 2019, IBMers and customers have been asking me "Should Ansible be used in place of UrbanCode Deploy?" My answer has been: While Ansible is capable of automating deployments, which is UrbanCode Deploy's...
z/OS is not just for COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler developers – organizations can also draw on open languages like #node.js , #Python , and #Go to write business-critical applications on z/OS to quickly respond to market changes and customer requirements. Did you know you can extend your...
“On December 2, the SAP on IBM i experts talked about system administration tasks including the tool APYSIDKRN, the Unix-like Secure Shell (SSH) access to IBM i, and also about system automation options by Red Hat Ansible and how that can be used to automate maintenance tasks with SAP on IBM...
* 2020-01-11: SAP Community blog post: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems by Denys van Kempen * 2020-01-24: SAP Community blog post: SAP HANA of Persistent Memory using Intel’s DCPM or IBM’s vPMEM by Dennis Padia * 2020-05: E3-Magazine title story (5/2020): IBM Power für...
Out in the field we are seeing more and more interest in using Automation. Automation has, of course, been around for some time. One of my first roles in IBM was working with GDPS (a family of services offerings for automation Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in the Mainframe space,...
Big thanks to Bryant Panyarachun from San Jose, CA for joining us and giving a deep dive on his work with Ansible so far. This recording is an informative one, so grab your coffee and settle in. If you'd like more information on this topic, let @Theresa Hans know and we'll set up follow up...
Ansible New to Z.mp4
IBM Spectrum Scale CSI driver has enabled containerized workloads to use IBM Spectrum Scale as their persistent storage and thus take advantage of its enterprise class features and performance. First released in December 2019, the driver supports dynamic and static provisioning and provides...
Although we’ve had to find different ways to connect with people lately, I’m so glad to be a part of the IBM Champion community. This group is flexible, loves to share, and we are still able to collaborate on ideas and projects albeit virtually. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know one of...
From IBM Champion Phil Allison; Ansible is rapidly gaining acceptance to automate and orchestrate various types of activities within our organization, including z/OS. This allows organizations to extend automation and normalize skills for provisioning, deployment, orchestration into a single...