IT CICS Systems Programmer

Nebraska  ‐ Onsite
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Description

The person in this position is responsible for all aspects of supporting CICS Services running in a Mainframe environment (z13). Responsibilities include active participation in planning, design, testing, documenting and researching all CICS group projects. This position requires a minimum of 5+ years hands-on experience performing CICS Systems Support duties

Responsibilities:

  • Prepares project and work plans. Reviews plans to ensure they align with department, area, and application goals. Plans always include: business objectives, testing plans, detail plans, contingency plans, implementation plans, and coordination for change control.

  • Support CICS release levels of TS v3.2 and higher.

  • Upgrade CICS TS environment with new releases,CICSPlex SM environment.

  • Support CICSPlex SM environment.

  • Perform work assignments within CICS using MRO concepts.

  • Use CICS Explorer to monitor CICS systems.

  • Use RACF to support the client's requirements for CICS Applications.

  • Support On-Call 24x7 clients with various Web application types.

  • Support CICS applications that use DB2.

  • Performs software installs using SMP/E
  • Performs reporting and monitoring to measure capacity, performance, and growth for CICS Services

  • Troubleshoots CICS performance problems and offers tuning solutions to achieve optimum processing capabilities

Required Knowledge & Skills:

  • Experience as a CICS Systems Programmer sufficient enough that you would require only minimal guidance for projects.

  • Experience with CICS TS v3.2 or higher.

  • Experience with automation within CICS Systems duties.

  • Experience with capacity and performance issues.

  • Experience reading and debugging using Mainframe core dumps.

  • Experience with TSO/ISPF/SDSF/JCL.

  • Experience with Disaster Recovery processes.

  • Experience with SMP/E.

  • Experience with CICS TS with DB2.

  • Experience with researching technical issues and possible software solutions.

Desirable Knowledge & Skills:

  • Experience with IBM CICS Tools IA, CM, PA, and DA.

  • Experience with Omegamon XE.

  • Experience with programming languages like; Assembler, REXX, other script languages, etc.

  • Experience with High Availability Applications.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
2 years
From
ESG Consulting
Published at
17.08.2016
Project ID:
1187558
Contract type
Freelance
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