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Connecting from z/OS apps to Kafka via MQ
Read more: Connecting from z/OS apps to Kafka via MQApache Kafka is the de facto standard open-source event streaming platform. In event-driven architectures, applications publish events when data changes, allowing other systems to react in real-time rather than polling for updates. An example is a CRM application that serves as the system of record for customer data. When a customer’s address changes, instead of…
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zopen community – open source tools for Z
Read more: zopen community – open source tools for ZI must shamefully admit I was not aware of the zopen community initiative before it recently became part of the Open Mainframe project. The zopen community provides a great set of open source tools ported for Z. Such as the dos2unix utility I wrote about earlier here.
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dos2unix on z/OS
Read more: dos2unix on z/OSOn z/OS UNIX, the dos2unix utility is not included. You can achieve similar functionality using other tools available on z/OS UNIX, such as sed or tr. These tools can be used to convert DOS-style line endings (CRLF) to Unix-style line endings (LF). For example, you can use sed to remove carriage return characters: Or you…
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System Z Enthusiasts Discord
Read more: System Z Enthusiasts DiscordQuick one. Just joined the System Z Enthusiasts Discord community. They are a pretty awesome group.
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Continuous availability presentation in 2006, updated
Read more: Continuous availability presentation in 2006, updatedContinuous availability The slide deck tells me that it was in 2006 that I created a set of slides for “Kees” with an overview of the continuous availability features of an IBM mainframe setup. The deck’s content was interesting enough to share here, with some enhancements. What is availability? First, let’s talk a little bit…
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Assembler to get name of current address space
Read more: Assembler to get name of current address spaceAssembler program that gets the name of the current address space from the PSA’s current ASCB block. Documentation: PSA description and ASCB description.
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ABENDIT – simple assembler to create an ABEND
Read more: ABENDIT – simple assembler to create an ABENDNot sure what I used it for, but here is a simple program in assembler to create an ABEND with a completion code of your choice. Look here in the IBM manuals for more specifics on the ABEND macro. Happy ABENDing!
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Exchange an MVS dataset with Windows
Read more: Exchange an MVS dataset with WindowsI have discussed in another article how you can convert data from one codepage to another. Also I have described a method to copy unix files to MVS datasets. This article summarizes a method to copy an MVS dataset to Windows, while keeping records and converting from ebcdic to the utf8 codepage. This job copies…
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Programming languages and what’s next
Read more: Programming languages and what’s nextMy review of programming languages I learned in during my years in IT. BASIC On the Texas Instruments TI99-4a. Could do everything with it. Especially in combination with PEEK and POKE. Nice for building small games. Impossible to maintain. GOTO is unavoidable. Assembler In various variants. Z80, 6802, PDP 11, System 390. Fast, furious, unreadable,…
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The Internet of Everything – from toilet seats to human bodies
Read more: The Internet of Everything – from toilet seats to human bodiesI walked into the restroom. A mechanic stood at the sink fixing something. It saw him holding a toilet seat. He was fooling around with the wiring of the apparatus. Then he replaced some electronics components and rewired the seat. Toilet sensors It never occurred to me that even toilets could be usefully equipped with electronic…
