Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Job Description

•                          Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting. 

•                          Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.

•                          Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement 

•                          Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc . 

•                          Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages (backup, deleting a particular records etc..)  

•                          Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ 

•                          Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components. 

•                          Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation

•                          Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers. 

•                          Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze

•                          CICS TS v5.x, v6.x, CICSPlex - Install, Upgrade, Patch, Configure and RSU Maintenance (Including CPSM support) 

•                          Understanding of a CICS MRO environment 

•                          Set traces (Aux and GTF) – ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination.

•                          CICS shutdown statistics – be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections.

•                          Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications.

•                          Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis)

•                          RDO (resource definition online) – must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc)

•                          Web Services – creating and supporting of web services within CICS

•                          Install and maintain Tivoli/Omegamon products, Broadcom Intertest/Symdump used to debug CICS programs, to format transaction dumps, FileAid, Splunk

•                          SDS – CAFC (CICS application file control) – install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists.

•                          Create new or modify existing CICS regions in support of new applications or CICS architecture re-engineering initiatives.

•                          Support Mainframe Message Transfer & Connectivity environments z/OS CONNECT

•                          Performance and Tuning in a large Z/OS Environment

•                          Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.

•                          Nice to have knowledge Mainframe zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.

•                          IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations

•                          Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team