Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. XChange Software Inc is seeking a GDPS Consultant to support clients implementing and customizing GDPS solutions. The role guides and leads GDPS engagements, provides expertise across DASD, z/OS, NetView, and System Automation, and delivers extensive client training and education.
Responsibilities
- Guide, instruct, train, and educate clients and actually Lead a GDPS engagement
- Provide extensive training to various client teams, management, operations, etc. Train extensively on the GDPS product, the functionality, and the customization in the client’s unique environment
Skills
- Has implemented a GDPS solution
- Is skilled and experienced to guide, instruct, train, and educate clients and actually Lead a GDPS engagement
- Experts in the GDPS technologies and the features and functionalities, the implementation and customization of the product GDPS, as well as education and training
- DSCLI understanding
- DSCLI Scripting
- Carving a DS8K with pools, LSS's and Volumes
- Starting replication between sites- spreading across the IBM power devices within the DS8K
- Resiliency on the DS8K - spreading connections so that all replication is not on one set of ports or cards within one I/O compartment for redundancy
- PARMLIB changes
- PROCLIB changes
- CLIST and RACF updates and changes per customer requirements - DORA, FFIEC and NIST compliance is required with our product put into net-new LPARs
- Minor updates throughout the sysplex
- Sysplexing and how it is required for Metro Mirror and hyperswap capabilities
- Standing up netviews from a blank slate
- Editing each netview environment for either Metro Mirror or Global mirror within the DSIPARM and STGEN members
- REXX coding specifics for customer requirements
- Policy Data Base (PDB) creation and management. Creating a PDB that GDPS requires to function properly, with the required automation operators that are needed
- Dual control and required security parameters - including focusing on the initial commands each has to avoid outages like a major client incurred last fall
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