I should also mention that we use MediaWiki (Wikipedia's engine) internally at dovetail.com and for oss4zos.org, since it is easy to set up on a typical web hosting provider. Its fine also, but not as flexible as JspWiki and won't currently run on z/OS.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > There are several sites that use JspWiki under Tomcat on z/OS for this > purpose. The pioneer was Rob Schramm, and with his assistance we > included it in an exercise on installing JspWiki in our "z/OS Tomcat > in an Hour" SHARE lab in 2007-2008. Harry Metske has also done > extensive work with JspWiki on z/OS. > > Tomcat/JspWiki on z/OS is pretty cost effective IMO if you have a zAPP > engine. Using our free z/OS Tomcat enhancements, its pretty easy to > set up user and role-based security to secure JspWiki using SAF rules. > Cool plugins like the "PDF" one allow you to dynamically generate PDF > documents from Wiki pages, and you can effectively use "MVSDS" URL > links to integrate documentation and information in MVS datasets. > > Here's a link to Rob's JspWiki page which has more information: > http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/RobSchramm > > Of course, if you don't have a zAPP engine or regular CP cycles to > spare, you can also run JspWiki on a Linux or Windoze box. I like it > for its simplicity and "plugins", and have used it extensively as a > collaborative systems analysis and design repository. > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > PS> We've been considering doing a quick-start JspWiki installer for > z/OS, to go along with our free "T:Z Quickstart for Tomcat and z/OS". > If you are a JspWiki z/OS user and you would like to help us figure > out the best packaging, default settings, plugins, etc, or if you > don't currently use JspWiki but you would be interested in this, > please drop me a note. No promises as to when we would get this done > though :-) > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:26 AM, McKown, John > <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: >> I have a real gut desire to organize our internal Tech Services into a Wiki. >> Something that is easily searchable with keywords. I'm having a real problem >> with "inertia" and "too much bother" from others in my group. At present, we >> tend to just document things in a MS Word document, then put that in a >> shared Windows folder with a "good" file name. We then ignore it. <grin> >> >> Does anybody out there think using Wiki software is reasonable and more >> effective? Has anybody actually done it? If so, on what platform and with >> what software? It is unlikely that we would host it on z/OS due to CPU >> usage. That would be considered not cost effective. >> >> John McKown >> Systems Engineer IV >> IT >> >> Administrative Services Group >> >> HealthMarkets(r) >> >> 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 >> (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell >> john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com >> >> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or >> proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please >> contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original >> message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and >> issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake >> Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of >> TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
