Overview
On Site
$60 - $65
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Skills
CICS
IBM
ISV
IMS
z/os configuration
HOLDDATA
triaging HIPER
Job Details
Job Title: Senior CICS, IMS
Location: Hartford, CT, St. Paul s, MN, Cockeysville, MD, and Atlanta, GA (Onsite)
Duration: Contract
Job Description
- Working knowledge of SMP/E software installation process, analyzing PTFs and HOLDDATA, triaging HIPER, FIXCAT, and PE d PTFs. Maintaining software currency and semi-annual maintenance migration to development, QA, and production CICS/IMS regions.
- Working knowledge of CICS and IMS parameters and internals to optimize functionality and performance as well as to resolve incidents. Work with IBM and ISV providers to provide timely resolution to more complex issues.
- Understanding of business groups and products as applicable to support the business needs and availability of individual CICS and IMS regions.
- Ability to create new CICS and IMS regions, started tasks, and address spaces and to migrate new transaction definitions.
- Adhere to change management processes regarding change windows, lead times, ServiceNow requests, and temporary access escalation.
- Consult with business groups and other Technology teams on application development, new feature exploitation, proof of concepts, security enhancements, etc.
- Attend monthly meetings with IBM and ISV to discuss product roadmaps, incidents, etc.
- Experience connecting CICS & IMS to other technologies such as MQ and DB2. Experience with configuring z/OS Connect to enable application API deployments and to invoke CICS transactions.
- Develop and test solutions for high availability and disaster recovery.
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