Mainframe Production Control and Scheduling Consultant - Remote / Telecommute

Company: CYNET SYSTEMS
Location: Cary
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description:

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 the 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 notify 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 issues.
  
• 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 the Production Scheduling team on nightly batch schedules.
    
  • Interfacing with application teams for ad hoc 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 the override library.
    
  • Performing Ad Hoc Scheduling Request.
    
  • Maintaining SLA with Incidents, changes and Service requests as agreed with customers.
    
  • Create incident reports for job abnormalities consistent with 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 schedules 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.
      
      

Keywords: CYNET SYSTEMS, Cary , Mainframe Production Control and Scheduling Consultant - Remote / Telecommute, Professions , Cary, North Carolina