About the Role

We are looking for an experienced IMS System Programmer to install, maintain, and support our IMS V15 workplace. You will own the day-to-day health of the IMS subsystem, from installation and fix maintenance through backup and recovery, and help the business evaluate new IMS capabilities.

Key Responsibilities
Perform IMS V15 system programming: software installation and application of fixes.
Carry out scheduled administrative activities, including system start-up and shutdown.
Perform problem determination and resolution for IMS system software and related products, utilities, and tools.
Define and implement policies for disk storage set-up, CPU consumption limits, and backup strategy for IMS subsystem objects.
Administer and maintain IMS systems, including running backups and recovering corrupted data.
Carry out research and proof-of-concept work to test recent and recent features of IMS and related products, and report long-term cost-perks to senior management on an ongoing basis.

Mandatory Skills




Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts
Experience with IMS software upgrades
Experience with complete system-level backup and recovery
IMS system definition (IMSGEN / SYSGEN)
Knowledge of IBM IMS utilities, including backup, reorganization, recovery, load, unload, and pointer checking
Creation of databases, tablespaces, tables, and indexes
Knowledge of basic IMS or Db2 commands
Security management and space management
Incident, change, and problem management
SQL performance tuning
Monitoring DBA housekeeping jobs, and resolving deadlocks and timeouts

Good-to-Have Skills
Change and configuration management: testing and moving updates through staging environments (ITIL Change and Configuration Management)
Problem identification, determination, and resolution for products or their usage, in conjunction with the requestor (ITIL Incident/Problem Management)

📌 Ims Db System Administrator Melbourne
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Melbourne