Mainframe System Programmer
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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.