Mainframe System Programmer

Skills Required:

Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.

Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance

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 that pertain to CICS region performance

Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning

Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.

Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.

Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ- Good oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:

Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits

Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment- Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility

Good Project Management skills- Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool

Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas

Prior Application programming experience a plus.