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.
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- SMP/E – in depth knowledge to do install work on CICS and any associated products
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- 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)
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- SMF – moderate skill set required to gather and manipulate SMF data (specifically the CICS 110 records)
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- Problem determination skills – ability to diagnose problem and determine root cause and remediation
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nCICS specific skill set:

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- Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration)
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- Set traces (Aux and GTF) – ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination.
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- CICS shutdown statistics – be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections.
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- Understanding of the CICS energetic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications.
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- Create both transactionand system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis)
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- 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)
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- Web Services – creatingand supporting of web services within CICS
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- RACF security – abilityto install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources
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- 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.)
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- Intertest/Symdump – product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps – install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use)
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- 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.

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- Trillium and Code1 software – aid in installation and day to day management of software
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- Compuware products specifically File-aid – proficient at manipulation of files through file-aid software
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- 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)
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📌 Hiring: Mainframe Cics Administrator (Karnataka)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Karnataka