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
- 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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IMS DB System Administrator in Melbourne employer: Cognizant
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