Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Role:                    Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Location:            Remote (USA)

Type:                   Fulltime with Tata Consultancy Services

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