Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator
Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator
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Job Description
Remote/TeleworkCloses 04/08
Visa: Must be US Citizen Green Card EAD. No H1B
IMPORTANT: This position is for a handson Application IMS DBA not for a DB2 DBA.
Railroad Commission of Texas requires the services of 1 Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator hereafter referred to as Candidate(s) who meets the general qualifications of a Software Engineer Level 2 and the specifications outlined in this document for the Railroad Commission of Texas.
IMPORTANT: This position is for a handson Application IMS DBA not for a DB2 DBA.
WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Actual
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Preferred Skills/Experience 7 Required 7 years Required Experience with z/OS Systems platform 5 Required 5 years Required Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration 5 Required 5 years Required Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries 7 Required 7 years Required Experience in basic z/OS utilities: TSO SYSVIEW and/or SDSF JSF Basic IBM utilities IDCAMS IEBGENER IEFBR14 5 Required 5 years Required Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol IMS programming and problem resolution 5 Required 5 years Required Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL 5 Required 5 years Required Experience with JCL CICS VSAM and TSO 2 Required 2 years Required Experience writing analyzing and debugging REXX programs in a z/OS environment 2 Required 2 years Required Experience with IMS HAL databases 2 Required 2 years Required Experience with IMS Catalog 5 Preferred 5 years Preferred Working knowledge of Top Secret setup administration and reporting 2 Preferred 2 years Preferred Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments including working knowledge of IPPrintway 3 Preferred 3 years Preferred Experience with ISPF panels skeletons and REXX code 3 Preferred 3 years Preferred Experience with ISMF storage functions
1 Preferred 1 years Preferred Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing 1 Preferred 1 years Preferred Working knowledge of Informatica Power Exchange software using mainframe datasets (IMS and VSAM) as either a source or target for change data capture 1 Preferred 1 years Preferred Experience with logically related application IMS databases
Visa: Must be US Citizen Green Card EAD. No H1B
IMPORTANT: This position is for a handson Application IMS DBA not for a DB2 DBA.
Railroad Commission of Texas requires the services of 1 Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator hereafter referred to as Candidate(s) who meets the general qualifications of a Software Engineer Level 2 and the specifications outlined in this document for the Railroad Commission of Texas.
- Provides technical leadership and guidance to the mainframe IMS application teams and collaborates with the Mainframe Systems teams to ensure the applications are highly available. Provide DBA maintenance and development support of application databases in all environments (development acceptance and production). Work will involve highly advanced (seniorlevel) systems administration in support of agency mainframe applications and supporting infrastructure; and coordination of daytoday system administration functions. As the DBA you will conduct performance monitoring and tuning activities backup and recovery as well as troubleshooting applications on IMS databases.
- Routine system administration functions to include performance monitoring security monitoring and maintenance
- Work includes supporting processes overseeing and coordinating mainframe operations in the State’s Consolidated Data Center Services (DCS) and working with the Network Administration Customer Support and Applications today mainframe operations.
IMPORTANT: This position is for a handson Application IMS DBA not for a DB2 DBA.
WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Administer mainframe application IMS databases.
- As the DBA you will conduct performance monitoring and tuning activities backup and recovery as well as troubleshooting applications on IMS databases.
- Proficient with using DBRC/RECONS and List reports
- Proficient with performing DBRC forward recoveries
- Experience with selecting points in time to do valid recoveries and performing actual database recoveries.
- Knowledgeable of IBM IMS utilities and familiar with vendor utilities.
- Create modify and maintain IMS database descriptions.
- Add remove and reorg database records as needed.
- Monitor and maintain IMS database performance.
- Application support issues that involve IMS databases.
- Assist application programmers on DBRC issues in the test environment
- Research and resolve DBRC related abends in the production environment
- Refresh Dev/Test databases with prod backup images as requested.
- Maintain Mainframe Operating Systems Administration
- Support agency application development work by creating and maintaining procedures for use during application deployments; and creating and expanding application environments during development.
- Provide technical assistance to programmers and operations personnel for all problems and testing that involves mainframe operations.
- Provide afterhour support for nightly batch Mainframe schedule COBOL and JCL programs.
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