Location: India
Job Type: Full-Time with Maintec
Experience Level: 20+ Years
Job Summary:
- We are seeking a highly experienced Senior CICS Systems Programmer with over 20 years of expertise in IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System)
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in dump analysis, tracing, problem determination, and performance tuning in a complex mainframe environment.
- Proficient in performing problem analysis using CICS system dumps and tracing
- Experience in COBOL application development and performance tuning
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and maintain CICS Transaction Server across multiple environments.
- Perform dump analysis and tracing to troubleshoot system failures, application abends, and performance bottlenecks.
- Utilize IBM tools such as CICS Trace, IPCS, GTF, and OMEGAMON for detailed problem analysis.
- Implement CICS exits, resource definitions (RDO), and system initialization tables (SITs).
- Tune CICS performance, optimize transaction processing, and ensure high availability & resiliency.
- Work closely with application teams to debug transaction failures using CEDF, CEMT, CICS Trace.
- Support CICSplex (CPSM), CICSPlex SM, and WebSphere MQ integration.
- Automate CICS monitoring and recovery procedures.
- Document system changes, configurations, and incident resolutions.
- Provide 24×7 support for critical CICS production issues.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 20+ years of experience in CICS Systems Programming on IBM z/OS.
- Expertise in dump analysis, tracing, and debugging of system and application issues.
- Proficiency in IPCS, GTF, OMEGAMON, and CICS Performance Analyzer.
- Strong knowledge of VSAM, DB2, WebSphere MQ, and RACF security.
- Experience with CICS regions, intercommunication, and MRO/XCF.
- Ability to script automation tasks using REXX, JCL, CLIST, or Assembler.
- Understanding of CICS TS upgrades, PTFs, APARs, and IBM maintenance.
- Familiarity with COBOL/CICS application debugging is a plus.