Mainframe System Programmer
LanceSoft, Inc.Montreal, Quebec, CanadaJob descriptionSkills 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 ExitsWeb application support in a CICS TS V5 environmentUnderstanding of zOS facilities such as : APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling FacilityGood Project Management skillsKnowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer toolWorking knowledge of the zOS & CICS ExplorerKnowledge of Natural language & AdabasPrior Application programming experience a plus.