Comments on: DB2 for z/OS and Me http://greenwanderer.com/blog/2010/09/db2-for-zos-and-me/ Embrace your Journey Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Chuck Shorter IBM '07 http://greenwanderer.com/blog/2010/09/db2-for-zos-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2514 Chuck Shorter IBM '07 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:12:03 +0000 http://greenwanderer.com/blog/2010/10/db2-for-zos-and-me-2/#comment-2514 Also 3 decades in DB2 -- since taking IBM DB2 DBAD course in 1980 (before DB2 GA) -- prior=3 yrs in CICS/IMS/DLI, 6 yrs in VSE/VSAM, 10 yrs COBOL. Been working with IBM hardware/software/technology/people since mid-60s, but only IBM GBS employee from 2000-07 (IT Architect/Consultant) in DW/BI practice. "Early Retired" (RA) in 2007. Currently contract consulting as DB2/zOS Performance/Scalability Architect (IBM/Aetna, BofA, IBM/Maersk, Agilex/USPS, BCBS of AL). Really want to keep current in DB2 technology, when webinars, seminars, etc. don't interfere with work schedule. Not so much into "Green" as into "Cost-effective" (efficient) Technology Resource Management (which is sometimes VERY "Green") and SOA/Mainframe Modernization/Migration/Integration (DB2 Server/Services) to Distributed Java/Unix/Web platforms). Ye Olde Goate, AKA "The COBOL/DB2 Wizard" "Olde Goates don't 'fade away', they just 'butt out'." Still Buttin' Also 3 decades in DB2 — since taking IBM DB2 DBAD course in 1980 (before DB2 GA) — prior=3 yrs in CICS/IMS/DLI, 6 yrs in VSE/VSAM, 10 yrs COBOL. Been working with IBM hardware/software/technology/people since mid-60s, but only IBM GBS employee from 2000-07 (IT Architect/Consultant) in DW/BI practice. “Early Retired” (RA) in 2007. Currently contract consulting as DB2/zOS Performance/Scalability Architect (IBM/Aetna, BofA, IBM/Maersk, Agilex/USPS, BCBS of AL). Really want to keep current in DB2 technology, when webinars, seminars, etc. don’t interfere with work schedule. Not so much into “Green” as into “Cost-effective” (efficient) Technology Resource Management (which is sometimes VERY “Green”) and SOA/Mainframe Modernization/Migration/Integration (DB2 Server/Services) to Distributed Java/Unix/Web platforms).

Ye Olde Goate, AKA “The COBOL/DB2 Wizard”
“Olde Goates don’t ‘fade away’, they just ‘butt out’.”
Still Buttin’

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