CMoD Administration Roles

[LizetteKoehler]

We are a new CMoD Shop - Just 5 months with the product.  This is for the z/OS functions for CMoD

We are trying to determine the skill-sets for a CMOD ADMIN vs a CMOD System Admin (System programmer type)

So the typical CMOD ADMIN what are the skill sets needed for that

1) COBOL Coding - to create and maintain Report exits?
2) XML coding - to create massive updates using ARSXML?
3) Unix skills both batch and foreground - to run ARSMAINT
4) DB2 Skills (like SQL coding) so they can update the DB2 tables as appropriate - usually with assistance or list the contents of DB2 tables?

What are you using as the description and skill sets for your CMOD Administrators?


Anything else I might have missed?

Lizette

[Nolan]

Welcome to CMOD!

Here are a few more items,
1. TSO/ISPF maybe implied with COBOL but strong TSO/ISPF skills are good.
2. JCL/PROC coding.  Lots of batch on Z/OS
3. We use lots of REXX scripts to automate processes, very helpful.
4. Exits are more than just COBOL, we have Assembler and C exits. 
5. AFP knowledge is good.  Not in-depth but we get lots of issues to troubleshoot around AFP.
6. PDF documents are also fun!  PDF indexing needs to run on a distributed platform now so Windows/Linux server skills also come in handy.  (We have a C exit on the Windows server for PDF loads)


Cheers

[LizetteKoehler]

Thank you .  That is helpful.

Lizette

[steven]

We've broken our Admins into two groups: Mainframe Techs and Windows Admins.  It seems to work nicely that way.  Familiarize yourself with AFP2PDF product to view and transpose afp's (if you load them).  Also, the PDF Indexer is a great help from a generic / graphical indexer standpoint.  I've been an Admin for a long time and I rely on our mainframe techs to help if there are significant issues and DB2 folks for any table issues.  Hope this makes sense.