Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Role : Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Experience : 7 TO 15 Years

Location : Chennai/Bangalore/Mumbai

Key words : Mainframe Cics, MQ Administrator ,IBM MQ product installation, upgrades

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.
• Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement
• Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc .
• Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..)

Good-to-Have

• Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers.
• Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze
• Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
• Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.
• IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations

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Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

1

Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting

2

Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement

3

Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze

4

Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc .