Mainframe z / Os Infrastructure System Programmer

Mainframe z / Os Infrastructure System Programmer

Must Have Technical / Functional Skills

• Recent experience in z / Os infrastructure upgrades
• Recent experience in Broadcom migration to IBM tools
• Knowledge and experience in support for a complex Mainframe Environment
• Experience in Capacity and performance management
• Experience in Install, configure and supporting Mainframe LPARS and MIPS
• Experience with Remote Administration of MIPS / LPARS
• Knowledge and experience in support for Mainframe migrations and LPAR / MIPS management
• Knowledge and Experience in Mainframe datacenter migration and design
• Experience configuring and supporting mainframe restores
• Experience in Mainframe backup to and restore from tape
• Work with vendor partners to manage the agreed upon SLA's
• Works with the vendor partners to improve the reporting and operations policies and procedures

Roles & Responsibilities

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

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Pre-Screening Questionnaire

Q1 .What are the pre-requisites for z / OS upgrade to 2.5?

Ans : SDSF Migration and HFS to ZFS Conversion

Q2.What is the LOADxx search order?

Ans : SYSn.IPLPARM where n to 0 to 9

Q3.Difference between Master catalog and User catalog?

Ans : "master catalog" stores the names of user catalogs, essentially acting as a high-level directory, while a "user catalog" contains the actual details and location information about individual data sets within a specific high-level qualifier (HLQ) managed by that user catalog

Q4. When a SMPPTS dataset is full what actions you can do?

Ans :

Q5. What are the Issues encountered during the product upgrade in SMPE?

Ans : Started task may not come up or issue with panel

Q6. What are the Issues faced after the z / OS upgrade?

Ans : scan the syslog and find the errors, running the IVP jobs for all products and making sure they are functioning fine

Q7. Whether PARMLIB changes needed for z / OS upgrade?

Ans : PROGxx, BPXPRMxx etc