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Publish Date
28 June 2007
Last Update
09 April 2009
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(based on 2 reviews)
Author(s)
- Paolo Bruni
- Roy Cornford
- Rafael Garcia
- Sabine Kaschta
- Ravi Kumar
Paolo Bruni is a DB2 Information Management Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. He has authored several Redbooks about DB2 for z/OS and related tools, and has conducted workshops and seminars worldwide. During Paolo's many years with IBM, in development, and in the field, his work has been mostly related to database systems.
Roy Cornford is a DB2 Specialist based in Hursley, UK, working within Europe for the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. He worked in California and Denmark as a developer of DB2 Utilities and the DB2 Administration Tool between 1998 and 2004. Prior to that he managed the Introduction Program for DB2 z/OS in Europe and was heavily involved in the early data sharing implementations. His first contact with DB2 was 16 years ago as a Systems Programmer for the IBM IT department in the UK. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry.
Rafael Garcia has been in the IT business for 24 years and has held various positions. He was a COBOL and CICS Developer, an Application Development Manager, and a DB2 Applications DBA for one of the top 10 banks in the US. For the last 10 years he has been a field DB2 Technical Specialist working for the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory supporting DB2 for z/OS customers across various industries, including migrations to data sharing. He has an Associate's Degree in Arts and an Associate's Degree in Science in Business Data Processing from Miami-Dade Community College.
Sabine Kaschta is a DB2 Specialist working for IBM Global Learning Services in Germany as an education consultant. She has 14 years of experience working with DB2. Before joining IBM in 1998, she worked for a third-party vendor providing second-level support for DB2 utilities. She is experienced in DB2 system programming and client/server implementations within the insurance industry in Germany. She is also a co-author of the IBM Redbooks DB2 UDB for OS/390 and Continuous Availability, SG24-54866; Cross-Platform DB2 Distributed Stored Procedures: Building and Debugging, SG24-5485-01; and DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, ... and More, SG24-6079.
Ravi Kumar is a Senior Instructor and Specialist for DB2 with IBM Software Group, Australia. He has over 20 years of experience in DB2. He was on assignment at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center, as a Data Management Specialist from 1994 to 1997. He is currently on virtual assignment as a Course Developer in the Education Planning and Development team, Information Management, IBM Software Group, USA.
ISBN
0738489131
IBM Form Number
SG24-7330-00