Required experience :
- A minimum of ten years working as a CICS Systems Programmer / Engineer
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance
- In depth knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics for tuning CICS regions
- Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning.
- Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools Sysview.
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.
- Experience with Mainframe WebSphere MQ
Desired / preferred experience
- Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
- Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment
- Knowledge of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
- Experience with CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool.
- Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer
- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas
- Prior Application programming experience