Mainframe COBOL Developer

Staffing Spot, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffing Spot, Inc. seeks a Mainframe COBOL Developer in Charlotte, NC to design, code, and test batch and online COBOL applications. You will work with JCL, DB2, VSAM, and CICS to ensure reliable processing.

You will troubleshoot abends, restart logic, and performance issues, and collaborate with business analysts and production support teams to deploy robust solutions in a challenging mainframe environment.

Qualifications

• COBOL with file handling, tables, arrays, copybooks, and subprograms.
• Experience with JCL job control language, procedures, COND, and restart handling.
• Experience with DB2 embedded SQL, cursors, joins, and SQL troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Create, modify, and maintain JCL for batch job execution.
• Develop COBOL batch and online applications.
• Analyze abends and performance issues, troubleshoot production problems.
• Collaborate with analysts, QA, and production support teams.

Skills

COBOL

JCL

DB2

VSAM

CICS

TSO/ISPF

SDSF

IDCAMS

Tools

TSO/ISPF

SDSF

Abend-AID

IEBGENER

IEBCOPY

Job description

Mainframe COBOL Developer

• Create, modify, and maintain JCL for batch application execution.
• Work with JOB, EXEC, DD, PROC, INCLUDE, and symbolic parameters.
• Execute programs using standard utilities such as SORT, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, and IDCAMS.
• Manage input files, output files, temporary datasets, and GDG generations.
• Troubleshoot job failures and resolve common system and application abends.
• Handle job restarts, checkpoint/restart logic, and rerun procedures.
• Analyze job logs and spool output using SDSF.
• Monitor batch dependencies and scheduling requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance COBOL programs on IBM Mainframe.
• Write, debug, and optimize COBOL batch and online applications.
• Create and maintain JCL jobs for batch processing.
• Work with DB2 SQL queries, tables, cursors, and stored procedures.
• Handle VSAM datasets and file processing.
• Support CICS online transactions and troubleshoot production issues.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and code reviews.
• Analyze abends, job failures, and performance issues.
• Prepare technical documentation and support deployment activities.
• Collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, and production support teams.

Required Technical Skills

• COBOL: Programs, file handling, tables, arrays, copybooks, subprograms.
• JCL: JOB, EXEC, DD statements, procedures, COND, restart handling.
• DB2: Embedded SQL, cursors, joins, SQLCODE troubleshooting.
• VSAM: KSDS, ESDS, RRDS, IDCAMS.
• CICS: Transactions, maps, COMMAREA/channels (role-dependent).
• Mainframe tools: TSO/ISPF, SDSF, Abend-AID or equivalent debugging tools.
• SDLC: Requirement analysis, coding, testing, implementation, production support.

Skills: debugging,mainframe,sql,cobol