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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