Job Title: Mainframe Developer

Location: Scarborough, ON (3x onsite a week)

Employment Type: Contract

Pay Rate: CAD$40/HR INC

Experienced Mainframe professional with 5+ years of expertise in DB2 and IMS database administration, including database maintenance, backup/recovery, image copy management, DBRC operations, and space monitoring. Skilled in environment rebuilds involving IMS, DB2, and VSAM database creation, backup, restore, and migration activities. Proficient in automation and software support using CLIST, REXX, and SAS, with experience developing and enhancing tools, scripts, and operational utilities to improve test environment management and deployment processes.

DB maintenance

Strong experience to maintain DB2, IMS image copy and DBRC recovery jobs

Maintaining of IMS analyzer jobs

Creation and restoration of IMS and DB2 databases

Database space monitoring and schedule reorg and expansion

Environment rebuilds





Create and coordinate project plan/checklist activities for the rebuild

IMS backup and restore using IMS DBRC and DB recovery utilities, FP and FF database initialization.

DB2 backup/unload and reload

VSAM files creation, loading, unloading, path files creation

Automation and Software Support

Maintain the CLIST, REXX, SAS automation panels and scripts to support the test environments

Maintain and enhance the code rebuild, promotion, cleanup automations in test environments

Develop operational tools/utilities to improve and enhance our test workplace operational procedures and routines.

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📌 Mainframe developer (Scarborough)
🏢 Aarorn Technologies
📍 Scarborough