Roles and responsibilities of a Mainframe Administrator



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Roles and responsibilities of a Mainframe Administrator

Postby Yash_1984 » Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:34 am

Hello Team,

This is my first post. Recently I have been asked to learn and understand the job duties of a Mainframe Administrator. I am a beginner as a Mainframe programmer and very less idea about admin duties.
Could someone please help me with duties of a mainframe admin and is there any training available (Appreciate if can send me the link) available on this forum or any contact

I need to have this ASAP and I would really appreciate response on this post.

Thanks for the time
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Re: Roles and responsibilities of a Mainframe Administrator

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:16 am

Recently I have been asked to learn and understand the job duties of a Mainframe Administrator.

weren' t they explained to You by the powers of Your organisation

anyway ...
first of all We do NOT do ASAP
we reply on our own time and free of charge
if You have time constraints a forum is not the best place to ask for help

what happened when You googled with Mainframe Administrator
if You had done it You would not have had the need to ask here :mrgreen:

the first link I got when I googled was
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... inrole.htm
and the parent topic
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... Troles.htm


anyway there is no official job description for the role, it usually depends on the organisation

and as far as the training is concerned, Your organisation should provide it

PS.
it is funny that for such questions just googling with the topic title will give the reply
cheers
enrico
When I tell somebody to RTFM or STFW I usually have the page open in another tab/window of my browser,
so that I am sure that the information requested can be reached with a very small effort
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Re: Roles and responsibilities of a Mainframe Administrator

Postby Elakkiya » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:35 pm

• Installing software
• System parameters/parmlib maintenance
• Adding and deleting users and maintaining user profiles
• Maintaining security resource access lists
• Managing storage devices and printers
• Managing networks and connectivity
• Monitoring system performance
• Managing incidents on z/OS related issues
• SMF configuration
• SMS policies updates and maintenance.

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