Mainframe CICS Engineer
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Skills Required:Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenanceKnowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regionsExperience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region performanceAbility to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuningExperienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.Knowledge of Cobol to support application developersExperience with Mainframe Websphere MQ- Good oral/written communication skills Skills desired:Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS ExitsWeb application support in a CICS TS V5 environment- Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling FacilityGood Project Management skills- Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer toolWorking knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer- Knowledge of Natural language & AdabasPrior Application programming experience a plus.
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