The term “DevOps” is occupying a lot of space in articles, presentations, and blogs lately. But it doesn’t apply to the mainframe or Db2 on z/OS… or does it? As Db2 DBAs, we’re too busy keeping the lights on to worry about a trend that affects only distributed and mobile apps. But the truth is that many of those apps access Db2 data on z/OS, and they’re deploying changes at an accelerating rate. Application development teams have learned to use a variety of tools to automate and speed up the process of deployment, but they don’t understand the mainframe and how to deploy to it. If we don’t want to be seen as the barrier to effective deployment of applications, we need to be part of the solution. Our job as DBAs has always been maintaining the stability of the platform and … [Read More]


