CICS Admin

JD: CICS Administration:

• 6+ years of experience as a CICS System Programmer with experience in managing CICS regions across multiple Systems/LPARs.

• Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.

• 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.

• Exposure to installation, upgrade, and maintenance of CICS and related products.

• Set up and maintain CICS regions & analyzing CICS system logs.

• Defining/Maintaining CICS system tables.

• Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits

• Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment

• Using traces in problem determination and formatting and interpreting trace entries.

• Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning on CICS regions.

• Should have a sound understanding and working knowledge of z/OS, TSO, ISPF, SMP/E, DB2, JCL and basic COBOL scripting.

• Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility

• Having a knowledge in Mainframe MQ Administration is a plus.

• Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer

• Good understanding of ITIL modules like Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management.