Systems Programming Consultants, Inc.

Systems Programming
Consultants, Inc.
Serving the Systems Management Community since 1982

Nationwide Staffing for
Fulltime and Contract
Systems Management Professionals


SPCI is the world's leading search firm for locating and qualifying mainframe systems programmers and mainframe commercial product developers. Our areas of expertise include:

For the data center:

  • Systems Programming – z/OS, z/VM, z/Linux, z/VSE, Comm Server (VTAM, TCP/IP), CICS, MQ, Db2, IMS.
  • Program Product Support – SMP/E maintenance/installs, product upgrades/migrations, exit coding.
  • Storage Administration – DFSMS, DFSMShsm, DFSMSdss, DFSMSrmm, ACS routines, data replication/mirroring, GDPS, Disaster Recovery, etc.
  • Networking – TCP/IP, VTAM, TLS, FTP, Enterprise Extender, zERT, SMC, etc.
  • Security Administration – RACF, ACF2, TSS, etc.
  • Troubleshooting – Dump analysis (IPCS, Abend-AID, etc.), traces (GTF), system monitors (Omegamon, TMON, MainView).
  • Capacity Planning/Performance Tuning – WLM, source data extraction and analysis (SMF, RMF, log files), creation of charts and reports.
  • Mainframe Automation – REXX, OPS/MVS, SA z/OS.
  • Hardware Configuration – HMC, HCD, CPU upgrades, datacenter migrations.
  • Systems-level Database Administration – Db2, IMS.

For the vendor:

  • Commercial Product Development – HLASM, Java, C/C++/C#, PL/X, REXX, etc.
  • L1/L2/L3 Support – Troubleshooting (IPCS, XDC, etc.), SMP/E packaging, coding fixes.
  • Pre/Post Sales Engineering – Technical marketing, presentations, on-site product support.
  • Quality Assurance – Regression testing, automation scripting, root cause analysis.

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