Remote - Mainframe Production Control and Scheduling

NEED IMMEDIATE SUPPLY OF RESUMES FOR PRODUCTION CONTROL & SCHEDULING  Roles – NO NEW RESUMES SO FAR AND HAVE BECOME ESCALATED

We need someone from System Side / System Programming side and NOT from Application side / development or UDB Background.

MAINFRAME CONTROL-M Exp a MUST SKILL

Console Operations:

·       Monitoring the Console for the outstanding messages, SMF Dumps, Tape related Issues, Buffer Shortage, and Spool Maintenance, Initiator issues, contention, Console connectivity and other issues.

·       Monitoring the jobs in mainframe console based on daily guidelines.

·       Monitoring the Spool Volume at regular intervals.

·       Monitoring CPC capacity in RMF.

·       Pausing batch jobs to avoid 100% spool utilization.

·       Taking dump and recycling the Online regions and Started Tasks.

·       Changing the service class, priority of jobs based on request.

·       Start/Stop the started tasks (ST) through SSM as per request.

·       Working with MVS, JES commands.

·       Ability to investigate job sysouts.

·       Cancelling jobs, Online regions & TSO Users through Console.

·       Varying the tape drives online/offline.

·       To Monitor Mainframe Console for System/Application Critical Messages and Provide the fix as per procedures and/or escalate to the System/Application Owner.

·       Follow the escalation process to notifying the Engineering Team for Regions/Started Task abends and other issues by creating /assigning the Incident ticket to the appropriate team/groups.

·       Ensure the System and Regions/Tasks availability On-time after Maintenance.

·       Participate in Conference calls / Bridge calls for priority issue.

·       IPL | Shutdown/Startup of LPARS as per schedule and Monitoring using Console and HMC.

·       RMF | Monitoring CPU Usage of the boxes.

·       IMS | Starting and Stopping databases, Refreshing messages in IMS regions.

·       CICS | Recycling CICS regions, Enabling and Disabling transactions, Purging/Killing transactions, Performing new copy request

·       Printers | Fixing printer issues, reactivating JES2/VTAM printers

·       Spool Management |Monitoring the spool volumes at regular intervals, Monitoring input queues, Escalation to application teams.

·        DR (disaster Recovery).

Batch Operations:

·       Monitoring production batch jobs through Scheduling Tool in Mainframe.

·       Monitoring Daily & Weekly Batch Cycles for completion.

·       Coordinating and managing application restarts via JCL changes or restart procedures as per document.

·       Debugging JCL Errors, Space issues & Fixing job abends/failures in Production System.

·       Initiate and coordinate with Production Scheduling team on nightly batch schedules.

·       Interfacing with application teams for adhoc requests (i.e. restarts, reruns, demand schedules/triggers , Holds , Cancel , Adding Conditions) via Scheduling tool.

·       Analyzing Late Jobs, Long running jobs and looping jobs.

·       Queue Monitoring, Health Check. 

·       Modifying and executing the JCL temporarily from override library.

·       Performing Adhoc Scheduling Request.

·       Maintaining SLA with Incidents, changes and Service requests as agreed with customer

·       Create incident reports for job abnormalities consistent the Incident Management Process. Produce daily batch production report summary.  Produce monthly metrics on batch job executions, abend rates, etc.

Scheduling :

·       Add/Delete/Update Jobs using Scheduling Tool

·       Documenting batch requirements from application clients

·       Provide Primary Support for Scheduling activities on Control-M

·       Maintain and review batch job schedule as per user requirements.

·       Integrate Batch Deployment process with new/upgraded tool.

·       Updating and creating Scheduling calendars as per user requirements.

·       Create and Maintain Event Triggers.

·       Update new day Process jobs when new schedules are created.

·       Participate in DR Activities and provide Batch changes as per Customer requirements for DR.

·       Provide 24*7 on-call support.

·       Document Process and procedures and update periodically.

·       Represent the Scheduling team during Weekly, CAB, DR and Time change activity calls.

·       Handle Transition Calls and Migration project calls

·       Handle Customer Audits on a Quarterly Basis

·       Provide Support for validations during Product Upgrades and Patches.

·       Provide Permanent Solution to incidents occurring regularly and help in Problem Determining.

·       Conduct RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of major impacting service incidents

·       Participate in major incident management providing operations continuity, status updates, and client communications