Software Development Engineer, COBOL Mainframe
CVS Health
Senior Customer Solutions Engineer
Rocket Software
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,820 - $107,275 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Work in IBM System Z Professional Services team on customer engagements for IBM IMS Tools and other IBM mainframe products
- Install, configure, implement, and provide training for IBM IMS Tools product family
- Install, configure and manage IMS in a parallel sysplex environment and perform IMS systems programming
- Establish policies and procedures for database management, disaster recovery, security, maintenance and utilization
- Review new IMS versions, advise clients on functionality and benefits, and evaluate change requests
- Perform vendor consultations, DR recovery of application objects, and troubleshoot production database issues
- Respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients, including after-hours on-call support
- Perform database administration tasks: monitoring, space management, dataset space reporting and emergency fixes for out-of-space conditions
- Perform integration tasks: IMS reorganization utilities, unload/reload/secondary index build, image copy, pointer checker, log archive and recovery
- Use DBRC, IMS TRACE commands, DFSERA10, DFSUTR20/30, DFSDDLT0 and other utilities for recovery, tracing, and monitoring
- Identify and resolve performance issues and support planned and unplanned database recovery activities
- Provide customer-facing consulting, training, and advisory services to achieve operational excellence for clients
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience
- 8 + years as a Systems Programmer or other similar position
- 4+ years customer facing consulting experience
- Development, application lifecycle or change management experience is a plus
- Proven critical thinking, analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship management and communication skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Install, configure and manage IMS in a parallel sysplex environment
- 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
- Supporting multiple customer for after hours on-call
- 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
- Database monitoring
- Space management and database dataset space reporting for proactive outage avoidance
- How to immediately fix an out of space condition for a VSAM database dataset
- Coding and usage of IMS reorganization utilities (including IBM, BMC, CA)
- Unload Prefix resolution, Reload Prefix update, Secondary index build, Image copy, 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
- Identification and resolution of performance issues
- Online tracing – Usage of IMS TRACE commands and associated utilities
- Extracting information from IMS logs using DFSERA10, DFSUTR20, DFSUTR30
- Use of DFSDDLT0 utility to access data
- Familiarity with IBM’s IMS performance Analyzer is a plus
- Using DBRC to monitor database activity
- Willingness to travel up to 10%
