Toying with IBM Cloud Transient Servers

Last week I was toying with IBM Cloud tranzient servers, and got to setting a webhook url to be notified if the server needs to be reclaimed. In case the name doesn’t tells you anything, Transient Virtual Servers is the IBM Cloud equivalent to AWS Spot Instances. Creating a tranzient servers is easy enough trhough IBM Cloud portal, setting the webhook URL is not. It’s available only through API here...

June 4, 2023 · 2 min · Alex Popescu

Unleashing the Power of Hugo: Integrating Config Parameters with JavaScript

The Challenge: Using a config.yml Parameter in a JavaScript File Lately, I found myself in a predicament. I wanted to use a config.yml parameter in a JavaScript file, and apparently, it’s not that easy since most .js files are static as far as Hugo is concerned. Why would you like to do that? Well, let’s say you have a separate JavaScript file for Google Analytics that needs to be loaded at page start/end, but you don’t want to hardcode the Google Analytics ID....

April 20, 2023 · 2 min · Alex Popescu

How to find Proclib concatenation in z/OS

The easy way of Proclib concatenation in z/OS is to use the command $dproclib in master console (or in SDSF prefixed with /). The response is something like this for ADCD: RESPONSE=S0W1 $HASP319 PROCLIB(PROC00) $HASP319 PROCLIB(PROC00) STATIC LIBRARY, $HASP319 DD(1)=(DSNAME=USER.Z24C.PROCLIB, $HASP319 VOLSER=C4CFG1,UNIT=SYSALLDA), $HASP319 DD(2)=(DSNAME=FEU.Z24C.PROCLIB, $HASP319 VOLSER=C4CFG1,UNIT=SYSALLDA), $HASP319 DD(3)=(DSNAME=ADCD.Z24C.PROCLIB, $HASP319 VOLSER=C4SYS1,UNIT=SYSALLDA), $HASP319 DD(4)=(DSNAME=SYS1.PROCLIB, $HASP319 VOLSER=C4RES1,UNIT=SYSALLDA) Documentation and links Display a PROCLIB concatenation - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=section-d-proclibxxxxxxxx-display-proclib-concatenation

April 19, 2023 · 1 min · Alex Popescu

OpenVMS networking install notes

This is not a guide, but a collection of notes about installing OpenVMS and configure networking. In order to install OpenVMS wth AXPbox follow the guide of here, until you get to the networking part. Now for the fun part VirtualBox network configuration: Also, in es40.cfg you need to configure the network interface: pci0.4 = dec21143 { adapter = "enp0s3" mac = "08-00-DE-AD-BE-EF"; } where enp0s3 is the NAT interface of the VirtualBox....

March 26, 2022 · 1 min · Alex Popescu