Brussels Metropolitan Area
Systems engineer on z/OS, specialized in Software Change Management Specialties: - Changeman ZMF - Changeman ZMF Client Pack - Microfocus Application Workflow Modeller - z/OS - ISPF Dialog manager - REXX
- 2025 - Install ZMF 8.3.01 - Define a new structure so that data components (DB2 DDLs) and the related views could migrate from the DBA application to the applications. Provide the ability to define views as private/protected/public and generate a copybook with those accessLevels - Install VS Code on multiple VDIs - Discuss with Rocket Software the future of he ZMF Explorer - Start exploring the REST APIs from within Python to automate the creation of YAML files - Continue the coaching of the team - PO related tasks - Maintain the backlog of ZMF together with the SCRUM master - Define the PBIs with detailed functional specifications - Prioritise the PBIs - Assign the PBIs to the correct team members - Follow up on the progress made on the PBIs in a daily standup - Prepare the QP out - Present the backlog to the developers community - Present specific delivered features to the developers community
- 2024 - Analysed the baselines and implement a technical debt cleanup - Prepared the environment to support modern development techniques, so that applications could define usable components as private/protected/public - Rollout of the new infrastructure and pilot first application - Rollout of the new infrastructure for all applications - Start training and coaching other team members to become more T-shape - 2023 - learning Python - investigating how to integrate z/OS Connect development Changeman - develop solution to manage MQ objects in Changeman - Exploring the ZMF Explorer in VS Code - Activating ZMF REST API's - Install and setup of Microfocus Tomcat on zOS - Prepare ZMF 8.2.07 - Start integration of zOS Connect development toolkit with ZMF to deploy on z/OS - Study integration with SonarQube via REST APIs - Upgrade to Changeman ZMF 8.2.05 - Develop manual CodeReview into Changeman ZMF developers must assign a reviewer reviewers can approve or reject the change reports on missing issued/outstanding reviews - Upgrade to ZMF 8.2.04 - Integrate automated code review for PL1 - Integrate UNIT testing framework - Contribute to the Mainframe Modernisation project
- Prepare the upgrade to ZMF8.2.03 - New version tree labeling mechanism using SSV and HLLX framework - Upgrade to Changeman ZMF 8.2.01 - Rework the PL1 support to Enterprise PL1 5.2 and support for DLL - Create 1 PL1 procedure for cross applications and support multiple compile/link modes - Adapt the DB2 implementation to use the new ZMF DB2 features - Created an automated release build process to support 4 releases in sequence
Specialized in delivering services in : - ChangeMan ZMF - ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack - ChangeMan ZMF ERO - MicroFocus AWM - Software Change Management - ITIL - Home Networking
- Upgrade Changeman ZMF to release 8.1.4.01 - Install Changeman ZMF Client Pack - Transform all panel customisations into HLLX code to ease the rollout of future upgrades and the use of the Client Pack - Implement a Code Review process using Component Activity Files - Support the DevOps team in the rollout of IDz using in conjunction with ZMF
Migration of Changeman ZMF from release 6 to release 8.1 - Rework the full implementation to a more easy to maintain implementation - Integration Changeman ZMF and RDz
Developing and Maintaining ISPF Dialog tools of P.H.Vriens such as AbitMORE SCM Commander