Month: September 2023

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​If not having a disaster recovery plan for your IBM i system is scary to think about – and clearly a lot of IBM i shops are not thinking about it beyond restoring from tape or virtual tape library because if they did, they would get together a disaster recovery plan – then maybe between the fifth and tenth most scary things in the datacenter today is actually making sure that the disaster recovery software works and the plan for recovery in the event of something going haywire actually works. High availability clustering and disaster recovery software is, by necessity, … The post DR Testing As A Service: One More Thing That You Don’t Have To Do appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More 

​The combination and automation of application development and IT operations, commonly known as DevOps, is itself like the processes it automates – it is a process of continual change through iteration and improvement. And so, like most things in life (other than vacation, maybe), it is a journey – not a destination. When people think about a DevOps roadmap “journey”, they are typically thinking about putting in some kind of DevOps tooling like Git or Jenkins; this is really not the place to start – the first step on the DevOps roadmap, for most companies, is actually a culture change. … The post The First Step In DevOps Is Not Tools, But Culture Change appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More 

​This is not new news, but recurring news. IBM has once again pushed the implementation date of an IP change for tech support out a couple of times, and, here it is again. IBM’s notice: “Due to technical issues, the September 19/20 change has been postponed. Additional guidance will be provided by October 6, 2023. For those that have adjusted their firewall configuration, please do not remove the new entries until we provide further guidance. Preparing customer firewalls and proxies for the upcoming infrastructure changes – Call Home, Electronic Fix Distribution.” You can find out more about this issue, which … The post IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 39 appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More 

​IBM i developers who prefer to code within VS Code can now get all the goodness of automated change management and CI/CD with Rocket Software’s DevOps offering, which now supports the popular browser-based development environment, among other new features. VS Code, which is short for Visual Studio Code, has rocketed to popularity in the IBM i community over the past couple of years. That popularity is due in large part to Code for IBM i, the Liam Allan-developed plug-in that brings ILE language support to Microsoft’s open source IDE. Allan, who is known to despise IBM’s full-fledged Java-based IDE, … The post Rocket DevOps Now Supports VS Code appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More