Mainframe Storage Engineer

DFSMS (Client routines), HSM, RMM, CATALOGS, IBM VTS TS7700 Responsibilities as Mainframe Storage admin Day to day activities include to provide support for maintaining system storage administration of tape and disk management tools. Plan, review and implement changes related to the system storage including Disk and tape, backup, catalog, DR drill, VSAM, SMS, HSM, RMM and CA1 etc. Plan and implement new projects like flashcopy, tape migration, tape encryption, DR test. Handle transition of new accounts. Customization of new storage products. TS7700 - Good knowledge of VTS and ATL with a grid environment. BVIR reporting using IBM tape tools. Tuning TS7700 to avoid throttling and get a better performance. DASD boxes - Good knowledge about DS8K, PMAX8000 boxes, experience with carving new DASD. Knowledge of SRDF and Global mirror. Copy Export - Implemented copy export process and worked upon copy export recovery process during DR test. CA1 and RMM - Good knowledge of Panels and JCL utilities. Updating the VPDS, RDS/VRS. Knowledge of housekeeping processing and reports. DFSMS - Updating SMS constructs and Client routines according to the requirements. Recovered from problems like lost of CDS. Generating and analyzing DCOLLECT reports DFHSM - Handling day to day HSM problems with backup and migration, CDS reorg and monitoring the Primary and Secondary space management