During December 2024, Jens Thyssen developed two Ansible playbooks for the IBM/z_ansible_collections_samples repository, focusing on secure automation and operational efficiency. He implemented a user authentication and token refresh workflow for UMS, leveraging YAML and Ansible to enable local, auditable authentication with configurable server and certificate details. Additionally, he created a Db2 utilities orchestration playbook that uses existing Ansible roles to streamline and standardize Db2 utility execution, supporting detailed configuration and verbose output for troubleshooting. Jens’s work emphasized reusable automation patterns and clear operational visibility, contributing to the repository’s goals of secure, maintainable system administration and automation maturity.