About this role
Area(s) of responsibility
JD for COBOL developer
Required Technical Skills:
• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development
• Good knowledge of JCL, batch processing, and job scheduling
• Experience working with VSAM / flat files / Oracle DB (or other relational databases)
• Good exposure to mainframe utilities (SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14 etc.)
• Strong understanding of file layouts, copybooks, and data transformations
• Experience performing impact analysis and code remediation
• Proficiency in debugging and resolving issues in large, complex mainframe applications
Additional specific technical skills needed for D0 to F6 conversion:
• Strong experience handling field length changes in legacy mainframe systems during format conversions
• Expertise in analyzing copybook and file layout changes, including increases or decreases in field size
• Ability to identify and remediate field length dependencies across:
o COBOL data definitions (PIC clauses, REDEFINES)