Job DescriptionRole: Mainframe CICS Administrator
NExperience: 7-12 years
NLocation:, Banaglore, Chennai, Delhi
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- IBM/vendor support – familiar with IBM and other vendors web sites: Open problem cases, ask questions, prepare and send dumps. N
- SMP/E – in depth knowledge to do install work on CICS and any associated products N
- Security – in depth knowledge of RACF (must be able to install security on CICS and associated products and create RACF security rules as they pertain to CICS) N
- SMF – moderate skill set required to gather and manipulate SMF data (specifically the CICS 110 records) N
- Problem determination skills – ability to diagnose problem and determine root cause and remediation N
nCICS specific skill set:
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- Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration) N
- Set traces (Aux and GTF) – ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination. N
- CICS shutdown statistics – be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections. N
- Understanding of the CICS agile storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications. N
- Create both transactionand system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis) N
- 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) N
- Web Services – creatingand supporting of web services within CICS N
- RACF security – abilityto install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources N
- 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.) N
- Intertest/Symdump – product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps – install and