Mainframe CICS

Role: Mainframe

Experience : 10-15 Years

Location : Pan India

Please find the job description

CICS specific skill set:

·         Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration)

·         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

·         RACF security – ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources

·         Tivoli/Omegamon products (this is our monitoring software for CICS, z/OS, MQ, IIB, DB2 and the web portal (on windows) – our CICS admin is responsible for installing and maintaining all these monitoring tools.)

·         Intertest/Symdump – product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps – install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use)

·         SDS – CAFC (CICS application file control) – install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists. Assist Operators when needed on use and problem determination if applications are failing.

·         Trillium and Code1 software – aid in installation and day to day management of software

·         Compuware products specifically File-aid – proficient at manipulation of files through file-aid software

·         Splunk – proficient at creating (modifying) Splunk reports (dashboards) to report on All CICS metrics (e.g CPU consumption, storage consumption, transaction volume, response times, wait times, etc)