by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 13, 2021 | administration, cloud, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Reclaim resourcesThis is a quick follow-up to my "To restore or delete" post in which I discussed IBM Cloud resource reclamations and shared some tricks. Today, I have some more details and also want to share with you my best practices on handling...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 11, 2021 | administration, dashdb, DB2, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, migration, nodejs, Python
Over the past 12 months, Db2 on Cloud migrated instances to a new deployment model. It seems to be based on the IBM Cloud Databases model and resulted in a different structure for the service credentials. Previously, Db2 on Cloud instances were accessible on the...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Sep 22, 2021 | administration, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Resource managementOver the past weeks, I provisioned many resources in my IBM Cloud account. Typical to cloud computing, I also deleted and re-provisioned service instances. As part of that work, I dealt with resource reclamation and sometimes restored services or...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Sep 3, 2021 | chatbot, Docker, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, twitter
A Twitterbot at workSome months ago, I discussed cron-like scheduling on IBM Cloud. One of my personal use cases is to send out tweets. In this post, I am going to look into details, into how I implemented a Twitter bot, deployed it to IBM Cloud Code Engine, and how...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jul 28, 2021 | FIDO2, IT, linux, security, system management
Ready for vacation: PasswordsThe months of July and August are typical vacation times. Many people work with (at least mental) packing list to prepare for some time off. On my list are passwords. I can relax knowing that no password will expire when I am away. The...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jul 26, 2021 | applications, DB2, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, knowledge center, Python, security
One of the recurring questions I have seen is "how to connect from Python to Db2". I have blogged about Python and Db2 a couple times before. Recently, the question has been popping up again more frequently. From my view, the increased security with mandatory SSL/TLS...
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