AS400 Systems Programmer
AS400 Systems Programmer
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Job Title: AS400 Systems Programmer
Duration: 1 Year
Location: Cranston RI (Occasional travel might be required from Cranston to Warwick)
Job description:
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
Experience and skills to support and perform the duties and responsibilities described above.
- Minimum 35 years experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff and engage business technical resources and support vendors
- COBOL programming experience
- AS400 Administration experience
- Go Anywhere Integration ODBC SFTP FTP Mocha Rumba Blue Zone emulation software and HIS system experience
- Expertise in creating tables dropping tables adding fields indexes maintaining and resolving database issues and database recovery processes (various databases Ex: DB2 SQL SQL/DS VSAM databases)
- Familiarity with IBM OS utilities MVS JCL VSE JCL Easytrieve Plus Message Log (MLOG) and intrinsic functions
- Experience with XL Print Paris (forms & programming) Visio MS Office Teams Jira and other common tools
- Other experience as necessary to perform the system administration and programming tasks required.
- Database recovery
- Troubleshoot and work with affected agencies to resolve problems.
- Experience in application conversion to outside vendors
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
IBM Power 9 I Series (AS400) Systems Programming (System 36 and Native Mode)
- Maintain upgrade monitor and report on all IBM iSeries systems and HMC infrastructure including PTFs and firmware upgrades errors failures and security aspects
- Maintain and monitor daily and system backups along with Replication/DR processes
- Maintain system journaling of databases
- Research and resolve systems issues as needed
- Manages installation and configuration of AS400 software applications including third party software and system management tools.
- Engage with third party vendors and support as needed
- Assist with client emulation configuration and connectivity
- Manages AS400 user and device configuration
- Manages and helps update AS400 security policies
- Support interfaces between DLT and other agencies. Manages security and networking interconnectivity between systems.
- Assist with developing maintaining and executing disaster recovery protocols for the agency devices and integration with Enterprise teams as well as perform periodic testing
- Assist with technical and business process with development of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans
- Assist EOC operators and programmers with runtime errors
- Check and maintain network configurations routing host tables and DNS.
- Performance Monitoring: Utilize performance tools to analyze system performance metrics. Identify any performance bottlenecks and take corrective actions including but not limited to performance critical messages errors.
- System Values: Maintain and review system values to ensure they are configured for security and performance.
- Subsystem Monitoring: Review subsystems to ensure they are running optimally. Check for any subsystemrelated errors or performance issues.
- Disk Space: Review disk space utilization and run disk reports to address issues.
- Job Queues and Job Scheduler: Deploy new jobs into the schedule examine job queue configuration. Review the job scheduler to ensure scheduled jobs are running as expected and report on success/failure and triage exceptions for all scheduled items including but not limited to scheduled jobs file transfers file locks message waiting email alert and report notifications.
- Security: Maintain and review user profiles and system values to ensure proper user system access and security. Check object authorities to sensitive objects and data.
- Backup and Recovery: Confirm that regular backups are scheduled and completed successfully. Verify the integrity of backup media and perform a test restore if requested. Currently leveraging legacy tapes in a tape library LaserVault.
- Network Configuration: Check network configurations routing host tables and DNS.
- Performance Monitoring: Utilize performance tools like Performance Navigator or IBM Navigator to analyze system performance metrics. Identify any performance bottlenecks and take corrective actions.
- Journaling and Logging: Review journals and receivers. Check system logs (DSPLOG) for any unusual or critical messages.
- Printing and Output Queues: Verify that printers and output queues are configured correctly. Monitor for any spool file issues or printer errors.
- Backup and Recovery Plan: Ensure there is a welldocumented backup and recovery plan is in place. Test and maintain plan.
- Monitors and provides system health check documentation
- Develop and maintain uptodate documentation on the systems configuration settings and document any changes
- Assist in developing technical documentation and Standard Operating Procedures
- Assist with technical documentation audits reviews and processes
- Provide technical expertise to implement best practices
- Provide operational status and other reports as requested
- Engage with third part vendors and support teams as required
Employment Type
Contract
