Mainframe CICS Administrator

Job description

Job Description

• Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration)
• Set traces (Aux and GTF) – ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination.
• CICS shutdown statistics – be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections.
• Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications.
• Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis)
• RDO (resource definition online) – must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc)
• Web Services – creating and supporting of web services within CICS
• RACF security – ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources\
• Tivoli/Omegamon products (this is our monitoring software for CICS, z/OS, MQ, IIB, DB2 and the web portal (on windows) – our CICS admin is responsible for installing and maintaining all these monitoring tools.)
• Intertest/Symdump – product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps – install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use) <br /