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James Gill

Principal Consultant

Favourite topics – Data Sharing, DB2 pureScale, Sailing.

A multi-talented database consultant, James works with both DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for Midrange systems.

James is our resident DB2 pureScale expert having spent time in the IBM Boeblingen labs and running our own DB2 pureScale environment for R&D. Having worked with Data Sharing on the mainframe for many years James has been able to combine his knowledge of DB2 on Midrange and DB2 on z/OS to gain valuable skills in DB2 pureScale.

Most recently James has been working on a high profile DB2 z/OS data integration project for a major UK Financial Institution.

When he’s not sailing on the Norfolk Broads James can be found working on Triton’s zPDT carrying out various R&D projects.

Recent Posts by James Gill

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Feb

2021 Posted by James Gill

Ansible on z/OS – 2 – z/OS Open Automation (ZOA) Utilities

Introduction In the second of this series, we look at the installation and execution of the second ansible pre-req: IBM z/OS Open Automation (ZOA) Utilities. These provide a raft of additional functionality to the Python world, include z/OS dataset handling,

Sep

2020 Posted by James Gill

Ansible on z/OS – 1 – Enterprise Python

Introduction We had been using Ansible to automate the installation of zPDT on Red Hat VMs for a couple of years before the version for z/OS was released. The power of Ansible is largely down to it’s enthusiastic open developer

Aug

2019 Posted by James Gill

Jenkins and z/OS – Groovy Pipelines

Introduction If you’re thinking of using Jenkins to orchestrate some or all of your DevOps automation, you will need to look at how to produce your own bespoke pipelines, or automation scripts. In Jenkins these are written in Apache’s Groovy

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