Description
An ideal candidate would demonstrate confident and effective written and verbal communication skills, as well as a robust understanding of sophisticated files, file layouts, and databases with VSAM, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, Cobol, JCL, and performance engineering across these disciplines.In addition to the skill lists above, a candidate with experience in the following would have an ideal background:
* Advanced CICS topics (Coupling Facility Data Tables, MVS Data Spaces (UMT/CMT)
* Channels and Containers
* SMF
* CPSM
* Transaction Routing
* Performance Tuning expertise
* significant expertise in capacity planning topics
* Experience or demonstrable knowledge in replication technologies (QREP or RRDF)
* Additional understanding or experience using RLS, CAFC, and VSHARE with VSAM files
* CICS Web Services internals
Experience with MQ Series on z/OS (Clusters, Shared Queue Groups, Security, Performance considerations, and integration with non-mainframe Queue Managers, and brokerage would highlight further a candidate's compatibility with the role.
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