Mainframes Batch Jobs Maintenance and Administration

Dear Candidate Greetings from TCS !!! TCS has been a great pioneer in feeding the fire of young Techies like you. We are a global leader in the technology arena and there's nothing that can stop us from growing together. Role: Mainframes Batch Jobs Maintenance and Administration Location: Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad/Indore/Pune Experience Range: 4 - 6 Years Educational Qualification : 15 Years of Full Time Education Job Description: Required Technical Skill Set

• Mainframes
• Cobol
• JCL
• DB2
• MQ

• IT Skills
• Familiar with enterprise ticketing system (Remedy).
• Monitoring LPARS and respond to system alerts o Familiar with Splunk monitoring tool or equivalent
• Demonstrated troubleshooting, diagnose and resolve problems.
• Familiar with IBM mainframe hardware – CEC, director, channel extender, DASD, tape.
• Familiar with DB2
• Demonstrates ability to interact with vendors – open/follow up on service calls.
• Demonstrated ability log in to multiple domains/systems.
• Demonstrated ability to perform basic scripting, run scripts/jobs, interpret/understand basic scripts.
• Demonstrated ability to perform basic command line skills, navigate Remote Desktop sessions, multitask within different environments simultaneously.
• Familiarity with Windows and z/OS required, Linux and z/VM preferred.
• Understanding of a Sysplex environment.
• Understanding of the IPL process and HMC.
• Understanding of JES including commands.
• Understanding of IOF and Sysview or equivalent software to view system/job output and logs.
• Understanding of the TSO/ISPF environment.
• Demonstrate ability to perform a stand-alone dump (SADump) or SVC console dump.
• Demonstrate ability to reply to WTORs.
• Familiarity with CMOD or an equivalent product used for output/report archival.
• Understanding of MQ components – queue manager, queue, channel, listener
• Familiarity with MQ management tools – MQ Explorer, MQMon
• Demonstrate ability to view/terminate a DB2 utility
• Demonstrate ability to view/terminate a DB2 thread o Understanding of a CICSPlex
• Demonstrate how to stop/start a region
• Demonstrate how to start/purge/force a transaction
• Batch Job Scheduling
• Understanding of ESP or and equivalent job scheduler
• Familiarity with JCL and scheduling jobs
• Demonstrate ability to work through space abends (SB37, SD37, SE37)
• Demonstrate ability to work in multiple OS environment
• Demonstrate ability to submit jobs, remediate failed jobs, investigate long running jobs
• Understanding of DFSMS
• Familiarity with VSAM o Understanding of data mirroring (XRC, PPRC)
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts
• Familiarity with TPX
• Understanding of business to business connections
• Familiarity with Netmaster or an equivalent product
• Familiarity with Outbound

• Well organized with ability to multi-task and work with minimum supervision with quick learning skills.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve technical issues