IMS database admin

Found in: Appcast Linkedin GBL C2 - 2 weeks ago

Dallas, United States Smart IT Frame LLC Full time

Role: IMS DBA

Location: Dallas, TX and Charlotte, NC

Contract /Onsite

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The IMS Database Administrator creates, maintains, designs, monitors and troubleshoots client databases. They use specific relational database management systems, develop and implement database recovery mechanisms and procedures. And coordinate security measures to safeguard database integrity.

Key Areas of Focus for this Role

· The successful candidate will perform mainframe database software upgrades coupled with administration and tuning to support IMS environments.

· The individual will be responsible for day-to-day database maintenance such as creating backups, performing restores, monitoring file extent growth, scheduling reorganizations, creating and maintaining DR procedures and overall support of customer needs and requests.

· The successful candidate will be called upon to perform a variety of database optimizations that will include general reporting and analysis of the efficiency of the database configuration and periodic review of database performance.

· Expertise and work efforts will focus on the development and support and/or the customization of new services and support efforts.

· System programming knowledge of multiple DBMS’s is a bonus.

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree required and/or equivalent work experience.

· 5+ years of professional experience in IMS for administration and systems programming support. CA and IBM tools for IMS a plus

· Knowledgeable in best practices of software management, maintenance and documentation

· Configure and manage IMS in a parallel sysplex environment

· Develop innovation, strategies, processes and best practices in IMS systems programming

· Establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, DR, security, maintenance and utilization

· Reviewing new versions of IMS for functionality, advising how they benefit the client

· Evaluating change requests and determine impact to assigned clients

· Vendor consultations for problems and questions

· DR recovery of application objects

· Troubleshooting and solving production database issues

· Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients

Other Qualifications


Database Administration

Knowledge of IMS database organization using access methods of VSAM and OSAM

Full function database organization types

HSAM, HISAM, SHISAM, HDAM, HIDAM, INDEX, GSAM

Definition and use of LOGICAL databases

HALDB (partitioned): PHDAM, PHIDAM, ILDS, PSINDEX, etc.

Fast Path databases (DEDBs)


Database Design and related utilities

DBD source coding and DBDGEN

PSBGEN source coding and PSBGEN

How databases are processed using secondary indexes (PROCSEQ=)

Correct usage of PROCOPT= to minimize database locking

ACBGEN

Online Change

IMS commands related to ACB and FORMAT changes

Coding and usage of IMS reorganization utilities (including IBM, BMC, CA), including: unload, prefix resolution, reload, prefix update, secondary index build, image copy, and pointer checker

Support planned (disaster recovery) and unplanned (emergency) database recovery activities

Knowledge of log archive and change accumulation utilities

How to perform a log archive on demand

Knowledge of IMS DB recovery utility

How to use DBRC to generate JCL for forward recovery and point-in-time database recovery.


Database monitoring

Space management

Database dataset space reporting for proactive outage avoidance.

How to immediately fix an out of space condition for a VSAM database dataset

Identification and resolution of performance issues

Online tracing - Usage of IMS TRACE commands and associated utilities for spot monitoring of online program/transaction activity

Extracting information from IMS logs using DFSERA10 and related utilities DFSUTR20 and DFSUTR30

Use of DFSDDLT0 utility to access data

Program/transaction monitoring – Familiarity with usage of IBM’s IMS performance Analyser product is a plus

Using DBRC to monitor database activity.

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