What are the responsibilities and job description for the IMS Consultant position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
Role: z/OS IMS Consultant
Locations: Hartford, CT/St Paul, MN/Hunt Valley, MD (Hybrid with onsite)
Long Term Contract
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
- IMS v15
- SQL
- SMPE
- z/OS
- IMSGEN
- SYSGEN
Job Description/ Responsibilities
- Execution of IMS v15 system programming, installation of software & applying fixes
- Execution of general scheduled administrative activities – including but not limited to system start-up, shutdown
- Perform problem determination and provide resolution for IMS system software and related products/utilities/tools.
- Prepare and implement policies for DISK Storage set-up, resource (CPU) consumption limit and back-up strategy for IMS subsystem objects.
- Administration and maintenance of IMS systems – including but not limited to run backups, revive corrupt data
- Perform Research & Development and proof-of-concept work for testing the recent and new features of IMS system software related products and report the long-term cost-benefits to the senior management on a continuous basis.
Technical Skillset:
- Strong Knowledge in RDBMS concepts
- Experience in IMS software upgrades
- Experience in complete system level backup and recovery
- IMSGEN, SYSGEN
- Knowledge on IBM IMS utilities like Backup, Reorg, Recovery, Load, Unload, pointer checker etc
- Creation of databases/tablespaces/tables/indexes/etc.
- Knowledge in basic IMS or DB2 commands
- Security Management
- Space Management
- Incident/Change/Problem Management
- SQL Performance tuning
- Experience in Monitoring DBA housekeeping jobs, Deadlock/timeout and resolution.
