Mainframe DB2 Sys Prog
Posted 1 week ago by Gazelle Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
United Kingdom
Summary: This contract role is centered on managing a critical DB2 subsystem, focusing on its availability, resilience, and performance within a production environment. Responsibilities include installation and upgrades, tuning parameters, and overseeing backup and recovery processes. The position also involves using specific tooling and managing security protocols. Experience with IMS and DB2 or IMS DBA support is advantageous.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of a critical DB2 subsystem ensuring availability, resilience, and performance.
- Installation and upgrades driven by SMP E.
- Tuning of ZPARMS, buffer pools, and EDM pools.
- Responsibility for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery design.
- Exposure to tooling such as Broadcom Platinum and SYSVIEW for DB2.
- Security management using RACF, ACF2, or Top Secret.
- Support for IMS installation and production DB2 or IMS DBA.
Key Skills:
- Experience with DB2 subsystems.
- Knowledge of SMP E installation and upgrades.
- Ability to tune ZPARMS, buffer pools, and EDM pools.
- Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery design.
- Familiarity with Broadcom Platinum and SYSVIEW for DB2.
- Security management skills using RACF, ACF2, or Top Secret.
- Experience with IMS installation and production DB2 or IMS DBA support.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
This is for a contract role! The role focuses on ownership of a critical DB2 subsystem, ensuring availability, resilience and performance in a production environment. The scope covers SMP E driven installation and upgrades, tuning of ZPARMS, buffer pools and EDM pools, plus responsibility for backup, recovery and DR design. There is also exposure to tooling such as Broadcom Platinum and SYSVIEW for DB2, alongside security management using RACF, ACF2 or Top Secret. Experience with IMS installation and production DB2 or IMS DBA support would be a strong plus.