Job Details
• At least 5 years of experience in IBM MQ support.
• Hands on experience with MQ on z/OS; creating and maintaining QMGRs and objects (queues, channels, etc.)
• Experience with MQ on IBMi (preferred).
• Experience with/knowledge of MQ and MQIPT on Distributed platforms (preferred).
• Understanding of how applications work with MQ (API's).
• Application development experience (preferred).
• MF Operations experience (preferred).
• Basic knowledge of containers and IBM CP4I (preferred).
• Proficiency with z/OS, ISPF, JCL, SDSF, JES, PDSE, VSAM, and related utilities.
• Understanding of/experience with SMP/E DB2, CICS, IMS, Network/TCPIP, MF Automations - OPS/MVS, as they relate to MQ.
• Experience with MQ Monitoring solutions for real-time and historical perspectives on status, trouble shooting, tuning, and trending.
• Experience with MQ dashboarding tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Ironstream/Splunk).
• Experience with IBM SMF data for statistical analysis.
• Experience with change, incident, problem, request, configuration item, event, and oncall management.
• Experience with MQ PLM, upgrades, maintenance, testing, implementations, integration.
• Experience with Queue Sharing Groups (QSGs), Coupling facilities, Coupling Facility Structures (CFStructs), Shared Message Data Sets (SMDS), SCM (flash memory); shared queueing.