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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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Jul

2021 Posted by James Gill

DB2 for z/OS Native REST API – Improved Versioning Control

Introduction One of the challenges with the DB2 for z/OS REST versioning implementation was that the default version - the version that gets run when a client doesn't express a version ID in the request - is the first version

Jun

2021 Posted by James Gill

Ansible on z/OS – 3 – Getting Started With Ansible

Introduction In the previous blogs in this series, we’ve run through installing IBM Open Enterprise Python for z/OS and IBM z/OS Open Automation (ZOA) Utilities, which are the required pre-requisites for Ansible to perform actions on z/OS. In the third

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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,

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