SUMMARY:

To be associated with an organization that provides challenging career in the Mainframe development field and gives me scope to update my knowledge, in accordance with the latest trends in mainframe and be a part of a team that dynamically works towards the growth of organization.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Mainframe Hardware : zBC13,zEC12, z196,z10 BC, z9 BC, z990 and z900

Operating System: OS 390, z/OS 2.1, z/OS 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.11, 1.12 & 1.13

Languages: JCL, REXX, CLIST, SAS, SQL, C & C++

Middleware/Tools: ISPF,IOF, HMC, CICS 5.1,CICS V4.1,CICS V3.2,IMS V13, CAFC, MountMon, ISMF, Control - D, Netview, Xpeditor, Strobe, CA-View,Through Put Manager, Abend-aid, FileAid, SAR, BMC Mainview, WSF2, CICS Explorer, HCD, SMP/EF, CA- Sysview, CAFC, NDM, SAOPS, SYSB II, DAF,, MXG, NDM, RMF, RACF, ACF, STARBAT, FILEMGR, PDSFAST, ICE TOOL, SQL Server studio, CA JCLcheck, MXG, Control-M, CICS CPSM, DB2 V9, DB2 V10, Zdynacap, Tivoli System Automation, BMC Auto operator, SAVRS

Ticketing Tool: CCM(TCS ticketing tool), JIRA, Maximo (IBM ticketing tool) and Sevice Manager tool

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Confidential

Mainframe system administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed BMC control Products(Control-M/R/O/J) V9 and successfully migrated from V8 to V9
• Installed and migrated CICS from V5.3 to V5.4.
• Installing, maintaining and customizing third party products like syncsort, BMC Mainivew, Control-M, RATABASE, DUMP master, Trace master, Attunity, CA Easytrive, Insync.
• Installed and upgraded BMC control products from V8.0.0 to V9.0.2
• Performing regular RSU maintenance for z/OS, CICS and DB2.
• Managing and supporting CICS v5.3
• Managing WLM policies, service classes, JES2 and customizing system parmlibs.
• Preparing and conducting DR exercises.
• DASD Management and monitoring PPRC flash copy process.
• System performance monitoring using BMC Mainview and RMF.
• Hardware configuration using HCD and building IODF.
• Performing IPL, POR and IML using HMC
• Performing capacity planning activities and generating capacity related reports using SMF and RMF.
• Diagnosing Hardware related issues and fixing it.
• Performing DBA activities like taking image copies, load, unload, reorg, runstats.
• Performance tuning for DB2 by optimizing SQL queries, building indexes and altering zparms etc.,
• Using CA endeavor for creating packages and deploying code changes
• Developing Automation scripts in Mainview Auto-operator.

Confidential

Mainframe system administrator

Responsibilities:

• Customizing ISPF panels and other third party product panels according to the environment
• Applying PTF through SMPE and installing some IBM and non-IBM products in Test environment.
• Quickref
• CA-SYSVIEW v14
• Abend-Aid V12.4
• Xpeditor V9.4
• Strobe 5.0
• Performing regular RSU maintenance for DB2.
• Hardware configuration using HCD and building IODF.
• Performing IPL and POR
• Monitoring system the RMF
• Using SMFUTIL to extract SMF type records for further reporting purposes.
• Diagnosing Hardware related issues and fixing it
• Responsible for taking care of SMF and MXG PDB generation Process
• Applying license for third party products.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring Hardware and OS alerts
• Involved in doing z/os upgrade from v1.13 to v2.1
• Managing JES2 and JES3
• Doing LLA and APF updates.
• Doing weekly IPL for the systems using either HMC or through system Automation.
• Monitoring the system using BMC Mainview and SAOS390
• Managing the Jobs and resources using Throughput Manager.
• Using SMFUTIL to extract SMF type records for further reporting purposes.
• Diagnosing Hardware related issues and fixing it
• Responsible for taking care of SMF and MXG PDB generation Process
• Making channel path online & offline
• Applying license for third party products.
• Analyzing Job abends and providing assistance to production support
• Analyzing NDM issues using Sterling control center.
• Running daily checks for the system.
• System validation on major upgrades.
• Netview to monitor and troubleshoot the third party vendor connections
• Worked on WSF2 to archive and retrieve the historical Jobs.
• Involved in processor upgrade from z10 EC to z196
• Worked on SCM to make production JCL changes
• Generating MIPS report.
• Applying PTF and installing some third party products (CA JCL check/Quickref) in Test environment.
• Performing weekly RSU maintenance for DB2
• Installed and maintaining BMC neon tasks by applying regular maintenance and PTFs.
• Installation of Mainframe system Software and fixes using SMP/E
• To Perform Incident resolution, Problem Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements
• Creation of mainframe administration procedures, standards, guidelines, services and training.
• Planning and implementation of Change management in Mainframe.
• Creating new CICS regions
• CICS region migration
• Worked on CICS Explorer
• Worked on CICSPLEX environment.
• Providing support in solving CICS Application and System related Problems.
• CICS Web user interface.
• Used CAFC to open/close files
• Making ISC links b/w CICS region and IMS
• Analyzing CICS abends using BMC Mainview
• CICS-MQ connectivity check
• CICS Daily health check
• CICS performance monitoring
• Taking CICS dump for Storage violation
• Worked on CICS supplied transactions (CEMT,CETR & CEDA etc.,)
• Customization of CICS subsystems
• Worked on CICS CTG
• Performance Monitoring & Tuning the CICS Sub-System using IBM supplied CICS utilities.
• Alerting to dashboard for the subsystem related messages.
• Defining new tasks/application in System Automation policy
• Policy Changes
• Creating rules
• Adding subsystem to Automation
• Posting a alert whenever a subsystem/task cycles.
• Creating applications in the System Automation tool (SAOS390)
• Maintaining the IPL process through System Automation.
• Doing weekly Automation Policy build.
• Using CANZLOG to debug/diagnose any automation related issues.
• Writing Automation scripts to do an course of actions for all critical messages
• Converted almost 2500 Jobs using from Starbat to Filemgr /syncsort.
• Converted 100+ rexx programs from generating starbat statements to Filemgr statements
• Converted around 20+ SAS programs from generating starbat statements to Filemgr Statements.
• Saved around 500K US$ out of licensing cost due this conversion effort to the Confidential Client
• Converted around 500 plus IMS message alerts from BMC automation to System Automation.
• Developed 50+ SAOS390 REXX scripts for migrating BMC Automation scripts/Rules.
• Converted around 600 plus messages (DB2,CICS and MVS) alerts from BMC Automation to Tivoli System Automation.
• Implemented Mainframe Trending Report Analysis (using REXX) by which it had saved 4100 US$ to the client for a year
• Created an REXX utility to identify the LPAR name for the provided task names.
• Created an Enterprise utility (ERPUTIL) to access the Production tape volumes from Test systems by utilizing one of the advantage of DLM tapes.
• Generated IMS Transaction volume by Application report using SAS
• Created panel driven menu using REXX and automated the complete the process of CMS.
• Created a CPSM REXX utility to check the region health for 30 days and determines whether it requires cold start or not. If requires, it sets in the automation to do cold start when it cycles for the next time.
• Developed around 20+ REXX utilities for the Confidential client.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation and deletion of new TSO userID’s
• Creation and deletion of groups
• Defining new resource profile
• Providing access to a resource
• HSM activities
• Dump and Restoring of mainframe datasets.
• Generating DASD and Tape usage report using DCOLLECT
• Generating RACF reports using DSMON and Trace utilities
• Generating reports using Dataset Audiitng Facility(DAF) tool
• Installing and Maintaining tools like MXG, Mountmon, DCOLLECT,XMITIP
• Had done CICS upgrade (from v2.3 to v3.2)
• Monitoring system status through BMC Mainview
• Had worked on CA SYSVIEW
• Analyzing Job failure and abends
• Disaster Recovery Coordinator for Europe Mainframe.
• To Plan and lead scheduled business continuity testing.
• Generating MIPS, Country wise CPU usage report using SAS and sending them to all intended users through automated email.
• Coordinating with IBM for system support.
• To Perform Incident resolution, Problem Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements
• Installation and customization of 3rd party products such as Code1Plus and MailStream Plus.
• System and product testing on any major upgrades
• Security Administration using ACF2
• Initiator set up
• Generating report on MIPS and CPU utilization through visualizer
• SAR Administration
• IMS administration (PSB Creation, PSBGEN,ACBGEN)
• Defining and installing PCT, PPT, FCT entries in CICS
• Have enabled CICS Web Support (CWS).

Confidential z/OS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Had done CICS v3.1 Serverpac Installation
• Had done CA-Easytrieve installation.
• Involved in migration of Datacenter.
• ISPF Panel customization
• Controlling of RACF security between 100 + projects Groups and 1000s of associates.
• Storage Administration includes Volume Initialization, DASD Administration through ISMF and SMS.
• Writing ACS routines, creation of Storage groups and classes.
• Backup and Restoration of DASDs - Dump Full and Logical Backup using ADDRSSU programs.
• Configuration of HCD through Support Element for creation of IOCDS/IOCP datasets.
• Trained 60 + associates for handling Mainframe L1 & L2 calls for Production support projects.
• Perform IPL for system maintenance.
• Installation of Mainframe system Software and fixes using SMP/E.
• Developed few rexx scripts for automating few system related activities.
• To Perform Incident resolution, Problem Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements.
• Creation of mainframe administration procedures, standards, guidelines, services and training.
• Planning and implementation of Change management in Mainframe.
• Designing the feasibility study for POCs in TCS Mainframes for major clients.
• Had done ID cleaning project as part of Resource optimization and deleted around 2000 userIDs in 4 months.