Mainframe IMS System Programmer

Job Description

• Mainframe IMS System Programmer
• Responsible for supporting and managing IMS DB and IMS TM subsystems on IBM z/OS, ensuring stability, availability, performance, security, and integration in a mission-critical environment.

Mandatory Requirements Include

• 7 plus years of IBM z/OS experience
• Hands-on IMS DB and IMS TM administration
• DBD, PSB, and ACB management
• IMS control regions and transaction processing
• Buffer pool tuning and performance optimization
• IMS utilities, backup/recovery, and DR strategies
• Troubleshooting logs, dumps, abends, and database errors
• IMS integration with DB2, CICS, MQ, TCP/IP, and distributed systems
• RACF security controls
• SMP/E, JCL, TSO/ISPF, and SDSF
• Sysplex and high-availability architecture experience
• Willingness to work onsite three days per week

Preferred Experience

• IMS modernization and API enablement
• z/OS Connect and REST integration
• OMEGAMON, MainView, or RMF
• REXX, Ansible, or z/OSMF workflows
• TCP/IP and Assembler routines
• IMS routines and exit routines
• DB Control experience