Mainframe MQ Support - MQ System Programmer
Job Title: Mainframe MQ Support - MQ System Programmer Location: Remote Duration: 6-12 months Job Description: Mainframe MQ Support - MQ System Programmer Requirements and responsibilities:
- t least 5 years of experience in IBM mainframe MQ support.
- Experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.)
- Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API's).
- pplication development experience (preferred).
- MF Operations experience (preferred).
- Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred).
- Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities.
- Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ.
- Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending.
- Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk).
- Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis.
- Experience with MQ alerting implications and configurations; thresholds, traps, flows and notifications, including auto-ticketing.
- Experience with Automations for MQ operations, syslog messages, and other functionality.
- Experience with Capexpry implementations to prevent orphaned/stale messages where appropriate.
- Experience with Queue Streaming, an MQ feature used to replicate messages to a specified secondary queue as must duplicate, or best effort.
- Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management.
- Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration.
- Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing.
- Experience with various MQ connectivity methods; Batch, MQ clustering, point to point channels, direct client connections via SVRCONN
channels, batch, MQ triggering to CICS/IMS/zOS, IMS Bridge (OTMA), and MQIPT TCPIP/ HTTPS protocol conversion connections between MQ external/ core.
- Experience with MQ logging, active logs, archive logs, dual logging, zHyperwrite, logload/checkpointing frequency
- Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required for teamwork and collaboration.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with IBM software and other 3rd party vendor support for PLM, documentation, and technical support/troubleshooting.
- Support Disaster Recovery exercises as required.
- Create and maintain technical and procedural documentation for the team and others as required.
- Design, create and maintain messaging flows with diagrams, as required.
- Work well with teammates, other teams, and management.
- Provide excellent and timely customer service.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred).
- Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi Integrated File Systems, Jobs, Libs, Logs (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi IASP/Mimix replication for high availability Role Swaps (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi DB2 Mirror configurations for redundancy (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi MQ menus, commands, and administration (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi MQ environment variables (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi automation controls (preferred).
- Experience with IBMi FISMA enclave (preferred)
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