Vic Cross

Linux, networking, z/VM, and OpenShift tech at IBM. I dabble in code (Perl, C, REXX, PHP). Husband, motorcyclist, father of two (kids, not bikes). Tweets my own

[Vic Cross @viccross]

@anka_shugol I’ll be there! Perhaps another chance for a zHug? https://t.co/syV2mA1jIS

[Anna Shugol🏡 @anka_shugol]

Although Hug Your Mainframe is over, it’s never too late to hug z16! With my Aussie teammate @viccross at GSE UK

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AI on z16, presented by the definitely non-artificially intelligent @anka_shugol … New Technologies at @gseukc Conference

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@ploaney @anka_shugol You are too kind!

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@BitnerBill @anka_shugol Truly I have learned, and continue to learn, from the best!

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@anka_shugol It was a great week, and it’s always a delight to work with you! Thank you for teaching me a few things as well!

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What happened when I pointed Ansible playbooks that automate deployment of OpenShift clusters on z/VM, at a z/OS system with the new zCX Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift?
https://t.co/b594yLLMMU

#openshift #zos #zcx #ansible #ibm #redhat

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@a_giorgio @BitnerBill @HaloedPayload @bmoshix @mainframed767 This shows how programming can be such a “personal” thing. I learned C and Pascal at uni, and when I found Rexx it was as if I’d finally found a language that understood me 😂
Stems especially: the simplicity of EXECIO reading a file into a stem… sigh 😌

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@EKHugen @wintersweet D’oh, that’s Brisbane QLD and Melbourne VIC, btw… I know of Brisbane CA and Melbourne FL, and they wouldn’t make sense in my story 😂

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@EKHugen @wintersweet Can vouch for the ‘regionality’: my early career spent in Brisbane, I never saw a coat stand in an office until I worked in Melbourne. 😁

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It’s still Thursday somewhere! #HugYourMainframeDay

This is me with a z14, and my laptop at FL370 doing zPDT and #zVM. Also my P/390 card, which will always be *my* mainframe!

#IBMZ #mainframelife

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@mrpointy or BGP 😉

Although the truth of your statement can be found in the beauty of haiku:

It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS

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@hacmanchester @brianwhelton Underrated tweet

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I wrote an article: apply custom SSH configuration in CodeReady Workspaces so you can access remote Git repositories from your workspaces in isolated networks. https://t.co/Iy2kr9dUad via @LinkedIn

#RHOCP #IBMZ #LinuxONE #DevOps #codeready

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@a_giorgio @IanColdwater “All I did was enable debug, now it works…”

[Bill Bitner @BitnerBill]

August 2, 1972 VM/370 was announced. I was in Mrs. Isaac's class at Salford Hills Elementary, so I wasn't there, but it changed my life. Happy Birthday #zVM

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@anka_shugol @pavsmith Ooh, I think I know this one… building regs often don’t allow “unsupported” pipework (including conduit for wiring). So the pipe straight-down would need some kind of framing to support it. Maybe just as complex, and it ruins the view…

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Remember that meme about the “two states of every programmer”; where one was likening oneself to a deity and the other was a dog at the keyboard? That’s been me lately, from one moment to the next.

Today it’s been the former, thankfully!

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@anka_shugol @pavsmith Dodgy drainage can have that effect 😕

PS: your next-door neighbour looks to have the same construct 😕😞😖

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@anka_shugol @pavsmith Google says that the KLOBER could be a ceiling vent… so if the water is draining anywhere, good chance your balcony fills then drains via the vent into the ceiling space below you. So yeah, great design! 😱

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@BitnerBill Wow, a close call indeed! I hope the extraction goes safely and smoothly 😊