Overview
Skills
Job Details
Skills Required:
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenance
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
- Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
- Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performance
- Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
- Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
- Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ
- Excellent oral/written communication skills
Skills desired:
- Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
- Web application support in a CICS TS V6.x environment
- Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling Facility
- Utilization of CICS Configuration Manager
- Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer
- Understanding of CICS REST Services
- Prior Application programming experience a plus.