Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Role:                    Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Location:            Remote (USA)

Type:                   Fulltime Role with TCS

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

Thanks & Regards

Himanshu Shahi
VCS Digital LLC
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