José Raúl Barón Rodríguez has been an IT professional for over 25 years, starting with DB2 for IBM's mainframe VM systems (later known as z/VM). He was then involved in the migration from DB2/VM to DB2 LUW on z/Linux (Linux as a virtual machine under z/VM), as well as its integration and automation tasks. José was also involved in Oracle to DB2 migration project in 2011-2012. An occasional contributor to SPDUG (Spain's DB2 User's Group), he has been supporting the different DB2 releases ever since (8.2 up to current).
