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Middleware (CICS, MQ)

1 month ago


Hartford, United States Tata Consultancy Services Full time

Position: Middleware (CICS, MQ)

Location: Hartford, CT

Duration: FTE

Job Description:

  • Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe Middleware CICS, MQ, IMS TM in a Technical Capacity
  • Provide Business hours support and then On-Call support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role.
  • Develop, design, maintain, test, document and deploy CICS systems-level and application software features and changes.
  • Administer a large CICS Production and Test environment utilizing CPSM (Sysplex mainframe environment).
  • Administer 3rd-party systems software, including CICS system utilities, along with application software development libraries (COBOL, JCL, PROC’s, PARM’s, copybooks). Assembler is a plus but not required.
  • Performance and Tuning in a large Z/OS Environment. Including Dump skills for Troubleshooting.
  • Create new or modify existing CICS regions in support of new applications or CICS architecture re-engineering initiatives.
  • Install and maintain installation and maintenance of CICS software (Including CPSM support) and third-party vendor software to maintain a reliable and stable infrastructure.
  • Proficient with the IBM Information Management System DC
  • Knowledge of IMS Transaction Manager (IMS/TM), Explore how these facilities work together and how application programs interact with them in today's complex enterprise systems
  • Installation, patching, configuring and problem determination for IMS
  • Building and management of IMS in a highly available environment on the Mainframe platforms
  • Work with and manage an IMS system: Data Communications (DC)
  • Systems/Applications Management
  • Troubleshooting/Performance Tuning of IMS
  • Familiar with the following Security Products: RACF; Ancillary Products: SYSBII, IPCP, CAFC, ROPES, SYSVIEW, BMS GT, Macro4 Suite, CATS (ASG), DADS Plus ,Intertest, ERI, CICS PA , Z/OS Connect, Configuration Manager;
  • Support Mainframe Online/OLTP environment CICS, MQ, WAS
  • Support Mainframe Message Transfer & Connectivity environments z/OS CONNECT
  • Good understanding of Messaging Interfaces and Connections to DB2, IMS, Datacom
  • Monitoring, Incident and Problem Management of Mainframe Middleware environment
  • IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations
  • Work on Mainframe Middleware administration Tools and Products

Technical requirements:

  • Strong knowledge of CICS, CICSPlex, MQ, IMS TM on z/OS
  • CICS, IMS TM & MQ Version Upgrades
  • Experience working with: CICS Performance Analyzer, SAS, IBM Utilities and diagnostic tools such as Omegamon and Mainview for CICS
  • Proficiency in the maintenance of IBM CICS & MQ software
  • Skilled at troubleshooting problems in the CICS & MQ environment.
  • Strong dump analysis skills using IPCS
  • Knowledgeable in z/OS CONNECT and WAS.
  • Knowledgeable in zOSMF and ZOWE
  • Experience in using Xpeditor, Strobe, CICS Explorer, SysView, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, CICS-CTG
  • Experience in customizing ISPF Panels, RSU Maintenance, Analyzing and Fixing CICS Abends
  • Preparing the IMS network involves interaction with system and network generation activities.
  • Specifications for IMS system definition and execution control parameters
  • Procedural controls for operation
  • Monitoring and gathering production statistics
  • Establishing procedures to control changes to the online system design
  • Testing the online system after application and IMS changes


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