Mainframe Programmer

Tekshapers Inc

Dallas, United States

4 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

8 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

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Tech stack

Application Layers Customer Information Control System (CICS) COBOL (Programming Language) IBM DB2 Job Control Language (JCL) Rexx (Programming Language) Pl/i Virtual Storage Access Methods Z/OS

Requirements

8+ years hands-on z/OS experience, with significant time spent below the application layer

Strong HLASM required, and not substitutable by COBOL or PL/1 experience

Binder and linkage-editor fluency

Working knowledge of Language Environment internals, VSAM/QSAM control blocks, and the z/OS authorization model (APF, authorized concatenations

Comfort with JCL and REXX; dump and abend analysis (IPCS, SLIP, GTF or component trace

Nice to have: Db2 language interface internals, CICS global user exits and threadsafety, IMS DL/1 or MQ internals, SMP/E, experience with z/o

Strace or

diagnostic tooling, or IBM Z certifications.

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Dispelling common misconceptions about mainframes and z/OS

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Modernizing massive legacy mainframe and IBM i codebases

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Realities and daily prevalence of IBM Z systems

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Addressing the open source software gap on z/OS

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