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Skip the Copybooks: Automated DB2-to-Snowflake Migration

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Why does moving DB2 mainframe data to platforms like Snowflake still require weeks of manual COBOL copybook creation — and how can you skip that step entirely? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how PropelZ's automatic metadata discovery removes copybook work from database integration, so a DB2-to-Snowflake migration that used to take months can run in minutes.

Vince Re breaks down why copybook creation has quietly slowed mainframe database projects for decades, and how self-describing databases change the equation: PropelZ reads the table's own metadata automatically, so you write a…

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