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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

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

Apr

2019 Posted by James Gill

Jenkins and z/OS

Introduction DevOps has been a driving force in accelerated development delivery and improved quality outcomes for a few years now. Our mid-range colleagues have been championing this approach for a while, and there’s lots of good reasons why the mainframe

Feb

2019 Posted by James Gill

Using ansible to Setup Port Forwarding

Introduction In its simplest form, ansible is a Python derived automation scripting tool, commonly used to install, configure and manage servers and services. It has a huge collection of modules available out of the box to support management of a

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