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# Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator

- **Company:** RapidIT, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Databases, Database Applications, Software Debugging, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) SSL Extension, Job Control Language (JCL), Rexx (Programming Language), Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), JavaServer Faces, Mainframes, Virtual Storage Access Methods, Z/OS, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Change Data Capture
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3f1c8472-3766-421f-a12f-ee79117753e4

## About the Role

· Experience with z/OS Systems platform

· Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration

· Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries

· Experience in basic z/OS utilities: TSO, SYSVIEW and/or SDSF, JSF, Basic IBM utilities IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14

· Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol, IMS programming and problem resolution

· Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL

· Experience with JCL, CICS, VSAM, and TSO

· Experience writing, analyzing, and debugging

· REXX programs in a z/OS environment

· Experience with IMS HAL databases

· Experience with IMS Catalog

· Working knowledge of Top Secret setup, administration, and reporting

· Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments, including working knowledge of IPPrintway

· Experience with ISPF panels, skeletons and REXX code

· Experience with ISMF storage functions

· Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing

· Working knowledge of Informatica Power Exchange software using mainframe datasets (IMS and VSAM) as either a source or target for change data capture

· Experience with logically related application IMS databases