About the Role We are looking for an experienced IMS System Programmer to install, maintain, and support our IMS V15 environment. You will own the day-to-day health of the IMS subsystem, from installation and fix maintenance through backup and recovery, and help the business evaluate new IMS capabilities. Key Responsibilities Perform IMS V15 system programming: software installation and application of fixes. Carry out scheduled administrative activities, including system start-up and shutdown.
Perform problem determination and resolution for IMS system software and related products, utilities, and tools. Define and implement policies for disk storage set-up, CPU consumption limits, and backup strategy for IMS subsystem objects. Administer and maintain IMS systems, including running backups and recovering corrupted data. Carry out research and proof-of-concept work to test new and recent features of IMS and related products, and report long-term cost-benefits to senior management on an ongoing basis.
Mandatory Skills Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts Experience with IMS software upgrades Experience with complete system-level backup and recovery IMS system definition (IMSGEN / SYSGEN) Knowledge of IBM IMS utilities, including backup, reorganization, recovery, load, unload, and pointer checking Creation of databases, tablespaces, tables, and indexes Knowledge of basic IMS or Db2 commands Security management and space management Incident, change, and problem management SQL performance tuning Monitoring DBA housekeeping jobs, and resolving deadlocks and timeouts Good-to-Have Skills Change and configuration management: testing and moving updates through staging environments (ITIL Change and Configuration Management) Problem identification, determination, and resolution for products or their usage, in conjunction with the requestor (ITIL Incident/Problem Management)
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