Project History
Apr. 2021 – Sep. 2021
Slenderiser GmbH | End customer: Fashion Digital (Peek & Cloppenburg® Group)
Review of all performance-relevant areas (hardware, config, DB design, etc.) and identification of tuning potential in a DB2®-LUW database, as well as strategy for implementation (benefit-cost ratio) of the measures. Testing, measurement and presentation of improvements based on various metrics, implementation, monitoring and documentation of the tuning measures. Additional support for cloud transformation in Google Cloud Platform®.
Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021
VHV Versicherung
Development and automated implementation of a new unified role concept in DB2®-LUW, based on transparent LDAP, sssd, PAM and Active Directory. DB2®-LUW automation using Ansible® (LVM, User, Group, Directory, Instance, DB2 Installation, Fixpack Update, Major Release Upgrade, DB/DBM CFG, HADR, PaceMaker, Maintenance etc.)
Nov. 2021 – Aug. 2022
IBM Deutschland GmbH | End customer: BaFin
DB2®-LUW mainly focused on security, role-based access control and automation in Data Warehouse environments, plus various administrative tasks.
Mar. 2023 – Oct. 2023
Baloise Lebensversicherung AG
DB2-LUW® performance tuning of ERP systems | Conception of cloud migration | Various automation solutions through Shell and Ansible | Training of several teams in Ansible | Automation of operational deployments with Ansible.
Patching of entire DB2 environment | Cloud migration of entire DB2 environment | Decommissioning of old environment | Authorization concept and security hardening in the cloud.
Aug. 2025 – Dec. 2025
Project Partner
Consulting on IBM DB2-LUW, IBM InfoSphere Data Replication, Ansible Automation.
Automated cross-platform patching (DB2 Modification, Fix Pack, Special Build) using Ansible
Automated cross-platform DB2 major release upgrades using Ansible
Automated migration from TSAMP to PaceMaker using Ansible
Automated database hardening using Ansible
Automated database migration between Windows → Linux ↔ AIX using Shell scripting
Development of custom CheckMK checks for DB2
