Mainframe storage admin Resumre Profile

professional experience

Mainframe storage admin

Confidential

Currently holding a position of Mainframe storage consultant at IBM. Enthusiastic and vigilant about the new implementations and projects, Worked upon all the deliverables to successful completion with dedication.

Mainframe storage admin

Confidential

Worked as a Mainframe storage admin at IBM Bangalore, India, lead a team of 4 techs for maintaining mainframe storage system for different clients.

Mainframe system admin

Confidential

Worked as a Mainframe System admin in Wipro tech, supporting client Cable and wireless, handled mainframe infra support work, maintaining the system and storage. Operating System: z/OS Languages: REXX Tools: SMS, HSM, DSS, RMM, CA1 Copy Techniques: Global mirror/TPCR, SRDF

Responsibilities as Mainframe Storage admin

Day to day activities include to provide support for maintaining system storage administration of tape and disk management tools. Plan, review and implement changes related to the system storage including Disk and tape, backup, catalog, DR drill, VSAM, SMS, HSM, RMM and CA1 etc. Plan and implement new projects like flashcopy, tape migration, tape encryption, DR test. Handle transition of new accounts. Customization of new storage products.

TS7700

Good knowledge of VTS and ATL with a grid environment. BVIR reporting using IBM tape tools. Tuning TS7700 to avoid throttling and get a better performance.

DASD boxes

Good knowledge about DS8K boxes, experience with carving new DASD. Knowledge of SRDF and Global mirror.

Copy Export

Implemented copy export process and worked upon copy export recovery process during DR test.

CA1 and RMM

Good knowledge of Panels and JCL utilities. Updating the VPDS, RDS/VRS. Knowledge of housekeeping processing and reports.

DFSMS

Updating SMS constructs and ACS routines according to the requirements. Recovered from problems like lost of CDS. Generating and analyzing DCOLLECT reports

DFHSM

Handling day to day HSM problems with backup and migration, CDS reorg and monitoring the Primary and Secondary space management

Catalog

DR drill

Planning, preparing and executing the DR drill, bringing up the DR system using the restores, global mirror, EMC SRDF and copy export recovery.
Good hands-on experience with REXX

Responsibilities as Mainframe system admin

Confidential

Maintenance of Mainframe infrastructure, providing support for storage, administration of the OS
Installation and Configuration of products. Applying patches and Holddata.
Analyzing the System Dumps, EREP reports.
Dynamic reconfiguration of IODF trough HCD.
Changing the service class for jobs in WLM policies.
IPL, Taking care of the failed jobs, Maintain Spool utilization. Applying License.
RACF administration
Maintaining and handling day to day activities involving DASD and tape. Using system tools and products.