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James Cockayne

Principal Consultant

Favourite topics – Database security, performance & availability.

In over 15 years of experience as a DBA James has worked across government, retail, insurance and banking industries designing, building and maintaining databases that sit behind some of the UKs busiest online systems and the warehouses that support them.

Now working for UK based Triton Consulting, James focuses on extending the use of DevOps and cloud tooling and techniques with DB2 both on mainframe and LUW platforms.

Recent Posts by James Cockayne

Feb

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

Using s3cmd with DB2 Backup

Following on from a previous blog about using the s3cmd utility with export and import one of the most asked questions was ‘can I use this with backup’, to which my first thought was… no – the backup file name

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Jan

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

Using Object Storage with Export & Import via s3cmd

Starting with DB2 11.1 there is increasing support for using cloud object storage such as AWS S3 via remote storage aliases. As of writing support for remote storage aliases is limited to the INGEST, LOAD, BACKUP and RESTORE commands however,

Nov

2020 Posted by James Cockayne

DB2 v11.5.4 REST API – Bonus Blog

Bonus Blog – Create an iOS Shortcut to call a REST API Service Enabling clients to interact via HTTP GET/POST requests the REST API functionality provides clients a lightweight, modern interface to data stored in DB2 databases. In this series

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