Area(s) of responsibility

JD for COBOL developer

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development

• Good knowledge of JCL, batch processing, and job scheduling

• Experience working with VSAM / flat files / Oracle DB (or other relational databases)

• Good exposure to mainframe utilities (SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14 etc.)

• Robust understanding of file layouts, copybooks, and data transformations

• Experience performing impact analysis and code remediation

• Proficiency in debugging and resolving issues in large, complex mainframe applications

Additional specific technical skills needed for D0 to F6 conversion:

• Strong experience handling field length changes in legacy mainframe systems during format conversions

• Expertise in analyzing copybook and file layout changes, including increases or decreases in field size

• Ability to identify and remediate field length dependencies across:

o COBOL data definitions (PIC clauses, REDEFINES)

📌 Subcontractor_Cobol (Hyderabad)
🏢 Birlasoft
📍 Hyderabad