IBM Integration Bus - Integration Toolkit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
This is another of my various tinkering exercises ….I'm attempting to get the IBM Integration Bus (IIB) 9 Toolkit working on my Mac, against a VM running Red hat Enterprise Linux 7.4.I'm actually...
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IBM Business Process Manager Interactive Installation and Configuration Guide
I was writing to a colleague about planning for an IBM BPM installation, and thought to recommend that he review this: -IBM Business Process Manager Interactive Installation and Configuration GuideThis...
View ArticleFootball Simulation Engine - written in Node.js
One of my team has put this together, using Node.js: -Football Simulation EngineOverviewThis module was designed to allow the simulation of football (soccer) matches between two teams. It consists of...
View ArticleIBM Design Thinking and Agile - Some more light reading
A friend was asking me about playbacks, stakeholder involvement and the replanning of sprints.So I directed him to this: -Agile delivery ( GOV.UK )https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-deliveryAgile...
View Article macOS - Disks and Core Storage
I've spent some of the past fortnight tinkering with a 2014 Mac Mini, which has a 1 TB Fusion drive; this is a combination of a conventional hard disk ( aka spinning rust ) and a smaller amount of...
View ArticleBook Review - Disruptive Technologies by Paul Armstrong
This is another of my semi-regular book reviews for the British Computer Society: -Disruptive Technologies by Paul ArmstrongThis book appealed to me based purely on the title; to me, the word...
View ArticleIBM Information Server - Computer Says "No"
So this week I'm becoming an expert in IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS), having been only briefly aware of it in the past.I knew of IBM's acquisition of Ascential back in 2005, and was faintly...
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Installing IBM Cloud Private - Now what did I forget ?
I tried, and failed, to install IBM Cloud Private (ICP) several times: -docker run --net=host -t -e LICENSE=accept -v $(pwd):/installer/cluster ibmcom/icp-inception:2.1.0.1-ee installPLAY [Checking...
View ArticleEnhance your Kubernetes Experience with UrbanCode Deploy
Saw this on Slack today: -Kubernetes is a powerful platform for working with application containers. However, as application complexity increases and containers change and evolve, managing your...
View ArticleIBM Installation Manager - Reporting
I had a need to find out where IBM Installation Manager (IIM) was keeping it's Shared Resources: -Shared resources location for a silent install of Installation...
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Aide Memoire - Windows Server 2012 and the Missing Network
Not 100% sure why this occurred, but I had an issue today whereby a VM, hosted on my Mac using VMware Fusion 10.1.1, seemingly lost it's mind or, to be more accurate, it's network connection.The VM is...
View ArticleOracle 12c on Linux - Fonts Not So Good
Here we go again ….Installing Oracle 12c on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 box: -/tmp/database/runInstallerStarting Oracle Universal Installer...Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB....
View ArticleWebSphere Application Server to Oracle - Listener Says No
I saw this: -The test connection operation failed for data source BPM Business Space data source on server nodeagent at node Node1 with the following exception: java.sql.SQLException: IO Error: The...
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IBM Cloud Private - 502 Bad Gateway
I saw this: -after resuming three VMs that host my IBM Cloud Private (ICP) cluster.Assuming that the VM sleep had borked things, I followed this: -What is the proper way to shut down ICp?to shut down...
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IT Security - what do I know ?
Well, I'm constantly adding to the list of things that I know ( in full or in part )To quote Donald Rumsfeld: -"...because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also...
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VMware Workstation - Sharing my Success - With Sharing
I've been tinkering ( there's that word again ) with VMware, seeking to enable my Mac ( which is running VMware Fusion 10 ) to access VMs hosted on VMware Workstation 14.This allows me to use Fusion to...
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IBM Cloud Private - The credentials, they are a-changin'
This confused me briefly today :-)I was trying to log in to an existing IBM Cloud Private (ICP) Kubernetes environment, using kubectl.I'd previously noted down the credentials that I used previously:...
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IBM Cloud Private - Helm via the GUI - Not playing nicely
I had an interesting glitch with Helm on IBM Cloud Private earlier.For some reason, the Helm UI, accessible via the ICP Console: -https://192.168.1.100:8443/console/seemed to get out-of-sync with...
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IBM Cloud Private - Helm not happy again
This follows on from yesterday's thread: -IBM Cloud Private - Helm via the GUI - Not playing nicelyToday, after booting up my ICP VMs ( Master/Boot, Worker and Proxy ), I see this in the GUI:...
View ArticleIBM UrbanCode Deploy and WebSphere Liberty Profile - Now playing nicely
A few months back, I'd experienced an issue using UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) to download/deploy WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP).The TL;DR; of the issue was that the UCD Plugin that's provided by the WLP...
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