CICS Systems Programmer Location: Remote Duration: 12 months+ contract Description: The qualified candidate knows both CICS and has knowledge of how applications are developed & work within a CICS environment. We deliver shared technology services and support all business applications and end users. Our team provides capabilities for all stages of software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over hundreds of production applications. We ensure application and user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage and database functions. Our mainframe team is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. The team consist of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters. The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions. In order to be considered for this role you must be comfortable working with CICS (and MQ) in an enterprise scale Sysplec and CICSPlex environment. The CICS engineer must have strong, analytical, organizational and communication skills as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance and tuning, debugging and dump analysis. Required experience:
- A minimum of 10 years working as a CICS Programmer / Engineer
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance.
- In depth and knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics for tuning CICS regions
- Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
- Experienced with the CICS monitoring tool, Sysview
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
- Experience with mainframe WebSphere MQ
Desired/preferred experience:
- Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
- Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment
- Knowledge of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
- Experience with CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool
- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas
- Prior Application programming experience
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