Mainframe Skills

Do your mainframe operations risk suffering from a lack of capacity and capability? With mainframe skills scarce and experienced personnel hard to locate and retain, it can be difficult to run essential projects as well as BAU activities. Our industry-leading skills are proven, across operating system, security, sub systems, storage, hardware, software and ISV tools.

We offer consultants with the right mainframe skills, attitude and capabilities to augment your own in-house teams.

Few if any other providers can match our z/OS infrastructure skills, experience and expertise, meaning we can provide advisory services and hands-on support across the full range of issues and requirements you may face. We can enable you to:

• Check, monitor, improve, secure and operate your essential mainframe infrastructure more effectively.
• Plan, manage and deliver ad hoc projects and meet flexible resourcing requirements, including interim staff.
• Access infrastructure skills like Db2 and Linux on IBM Z.
• Benefit from new security capabilities, and from leading-edge zCloud opportunities.

Our skills set and capabilities include:

• Systems programming – technical skills in z/OS, RACF/ACF2/TSS, CICS, Db2, IMS, MQ, VM, Linux, etc.
• Architects – z/OS infrastructure, RACF/ACF2/TSS, CICS, MQ, IMS, Db2.
• Linux on IBM Z – for fast, secure and reliable Linux platforms.
• Infrastructure tuning and planning for capacity and performance improvements.
• Migration and upgrade assistance.
• Capacity cost reduction with various options available.
• Storage management – DFSMSsms, DFSMShsm, DFSMSrmm and Data Migration when installing new DASD subsystems.
• Operations and batch analysts – Mainframe Batch Processing, JCL Procedures, Job Schedulers.
• Process – problem management, change management, performance.
• Parallel Sysplex including planning and implementation.

The Grey Pool©

The Grey Pool© is a managed pool of resources from a highly experienced workforce that consist of individuals with the skills, knowledge, flexibility, and mobility to provide businesses with the ability to flex their resource requirements for hard-to-find skills, ad-hoc needs, support, legacy transformation, mentoring, skills transfer and many other variations, on-demand. Find out more about the Grey Pool© here.