AS400 Analyst Programmer - Dublin

AS400 Analyst Programmer

Contract
Immediate contract requirement for an experienced AS400 Analyst to work in a large Bank in Dublin City. AS400 RPG IV, RPGILE and CL Development.
Role:
Write and design technical specifications.
Write and execute unit test scripts, system test strategy and scripts.
Write code changes in RPGILE on development AS400.
Skills:
At least 10 years RPG IV experience.
Previous experience of financial systems, working within the banking sector is required.
If you would like to apply for this role and would like to hear more about this opportunity please email your CV to (see below)
Location Dublin, Ireland
Country Ireland
Start Date ASAP
Duration 6 months
Rate Market rates in Euro.
Employment Business CPL Solutions
Contact Janet Smullen
Email Janet.Smullen.5CF1F.98727@mail.jobserve.com
Reference JS98179
Posted Date 24/03/2010 15:19:04

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as400 jobs - Lead DB2 DBA(Z/OS or AIX or LUW or OS/400) - IP Soft - Bangalore, KA

DB2 DBA for IPSoft, one of the fastest growing MSPs in the US. • Schema Design Review, Physical Tablespace Layout• DB2 Server Installation, Database Creation, Alteration, and Setup• DB2 Server Database File Management.Nice to have a IBM Certification

AS400 Jobs: Do you have a job at the moment?

AS400 Jobs question

Do you have an as400 job at the moment

The reason for me asking this question is because at the moment I dont have an as400 job. Plus I came across this old as400 related jobs article on IT Knowledge Exchange asking the very similar question. They mention that it may be down the fact that its difficult looking for work on a system that is round about 20 years old, which the as400 is now.

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/as400-jobs-are-you-looking-for-work/

Plus companies are modernising their so-called 'legacy' as400 systems based on RPG to new and shiney windows and linux systems using java or .Net.



So with that in mind, and the ever present now, credit crunch, it would appear that the job market for technicians with as400 skills maybe getting smaller and smaller. Although to balance that there are still a lot of companies that rely on their as400 for their business processes to run, almost without hiccup Given that, I still think we will see as400 jobs around for some time yet

AS400 Technical Expert - MQ on iSeries for Oman

VAM SYSTEMS is a Business Consulting, IT Solutions and Services company with operations in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, USA, Australia, Singapore & India.

VAM SYSTEMS is currently looking for Technical Expert - MQ on iSeries for our Oman operations with the following skill set and terms and c conditions:

Skill Set required:

Providing guidelines and fine tuning of MQ implementation on iSeries platform.

Experience Required: minimum 3 yrs.

Terms and conditions:

Joining time frame : 2 weeks (maximum 4 weeks)

The selected candidates shall join VAM SYSTEMS – Oman and shall be deputed to one of the leading Banks in Oman.

Should you be interested in this opportunity, please send your latest resume in MS Word format at the earliest at nishanthini.suda@vamsystems.com or call us +91 471 4081888 or 2310430

Slow Running Batch Jobs on as400 Iseries

1) Is it a job running in a separate as400 iseries batch memory pool? (WRKSBS and check whether
the second column of Qbatch is a number such as 5 which is a pool on the
WRKSYSSTS screen and appears to have jobs running in it. Sometimes the
system is shipped with these jobs running in pool 2 (*Base) and this is not
so efficient, they can be affected by other work such as ODBC.)

2) If batch as400 jobs have been separated into pool 5 or whatever, is Expert
Cache turned on? It should be. If so, F11 on WRKSYSSTS will show *Calc next
to the pool. If it shows *Fixed, change it to *Calc, but only if you are
sure that all the work in that memory pool is the same type (i.e. all batch,
or all interactive.)

3) Have the files used by the batch program been getting bigger? They may
need purging. Or they may contain 'hard deleted' records, if so you need to
do a RGZPFM on them to speed things up.

4) Does the batch program use SQL to access the files? If so, you may need
indexes creating over the files. You can run the database monitor to find
out.

5) Which model of iSeries are you running on? On some models there is a
'governor' program that kicks in when the workload reaches the 'knee' of the
response time curve, and slows everything down using an interrupt called
CFINTxx - you can only see this in action on WRKSYSACT. This is more likely
to happen with interactive than batch though.

6) Have you done a RCLSTG recently? Maybe some data got corrupted.

7) Any duplicate records in the files? Sometimes the software doesn't handle
this well.

8) Sometimes you can speed up a batch job by removing logicals and
recreating them afterwards.

9) Ensure you use Visual Explain in Iseries Navigator to investigate any problems jobs with logical indexes that may need to be created on the as400 iseries

as400 Job stuck in JOBLOG PENDING

This is completely normal for a job ended with ENDJOBABN . The job is
truly ended and the joblog will be spooled out at the next IPL. Even though
the status indicates Joblog Pending, the job is no longer active and is not
taking any processing resources from the as400 system

Linux, security skills projected hot in 2005

IT workers looking to improve their standing in the job market should look to open source, Web services and security-related skill and certification sets, according to recent research.