James Tate
About
James Tate is from Hartselle, Alabama, United States. James works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Information Technology & Services", "Banking", and "Entertainment". James is currently Partner at Family Lanes & Amusements. James also works as Owner at JaTomes Software and Consulting, a job James has held since Jan 1989. In James's previous role as a Systems Engineer, Senior at Fiserv, Enterprise Technology, James worked in Hartselle, AL until Dec 2017. Prior to joining Fiserv, Enterprise Technology, James was a Software Development Consulting Engineer at Fiserv, Bank Solutions and held the position of Software Development Consulting Engineer. Prior to that, James was a Technical Architect at Netron from Aug 1988 to Mar 2003. James started working as Software Consultant at Computer Systems Associates in Jan 1980. From Jan 1987 to Jan 1988, James was Senior Systems Programmer at Mutual Savings Life Insurance Company. Prior to that, James was a Senior Systems Programmer at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics from Jan 1984 to Jan 1987.
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James Tate's current jobs
Family Lanes & Amusements is a small bowling center located in Hartselle, AL. It is a partnership with two pricinpals involved in the business. I handle the accounting end of the business doing most of the work remotely and my business partner now handles the day to day operation of the business.
JaTomes Software and Consulting is an Individual Proprietorship that I use for my independent consulting work. The large majority of the work has been in Operating System support for previous employers. I also do web development through the company as well.
James Tate's past jobs
CICS Systems Support, now RETIRED!
Primary job responsibility is to provide technical support to Inquiry (a home grown teleprocessing monitor similar to a cross between CICS and IMS). My job is to help diagnose problems and provide solutions to make support easier and provide more consistent system availability. I have reworked many of the internal commands to provide more robust information and system control. Have written programs and procedures to verify system integrity and to monitor for problem situations before they reach a critical point. Along with my Technical Support responsibilities I wrote and maintain our ATM authorization servers. These servers run as a CICS task using TCP/IP Sockets to support communications to several ATM servicers. These servers are 24/7 with a scheduled 2 hour outage once a week for system IPL. The servers were written to work in conjunction with Automation to notify support staff and operations when a communication problem is encountered. I also wrote a monitoring transaction that will monitor all production servers across several different LPARs. The monitoring tool will show the current status of each server and display transaction and response time statistics.
System Delivery Services – I have worked on most projects where IBM mainframe experience was necessary for the success of the project. These have included CICS ranging from normal systems to Client Server systems, IMS DB/DC, DB/2 and other TP monitors with features of both CICS and IMS. I am the person typically assigned to solve technical problems and insure the project is a success. Research and Development – Major projects I worked on have included support of mainframe assembler subroutines including support for MVS control blocks moving above the 16M line. Screen I/O subroutine for PC's composed of about 6000 lines of Intel assembler to do all output to the screen and accept input from the keyboard. Conversion of PC products to run under OS/2, most of the OS/2 work was spent in debugging compiler problems and assembler subroutines. Extensive use of both Realia and Micro Focus COBOL compilers in PC environment knowing each compiler’s peculiarities.
Primary CICS programmer on a Budget Information System for city and county government. As a consultant for Computer Systems Associates worked directly with people in the budget office to create design specifications and then implemented the changes. Coded various Technical Programs (open and close online VSAM and DLI files, format and print CICS Maps from core image library), coding done in Command Level and Macro Level CICS using DLI and VSAM
Finished conversion to MVS/XA on IBM 4381 from OS/VS1 running on an IBM 370/158. This included changing OS/VS1 JES page separator routines into JES2 EXITS to handle file-naming conventions for OEM equipment emulating printers on the system. This involved tuning and customization to make the conversion transparent to the operations staff and the application programmers.
Responsible for all systems maintenance of IBM systems (4341 running MVS/SP channel attached to 4381 running VM/SP and DOS/VSE). In less than one year I completed a migration of the communications network from a totally bisync environment to 97% SNA environment. This entailed switching from EP to PEP on a 3705, upgrading versions of RSCS, installing GCS and SNA under VM, and writing user procedures for access to all systems. Duties included making decisions on hardware requirements, networking all computers at location (IBM, Dec, Wang, and PC's). Established operating procedures for daily operation and system backup. Wrote tape management program and a program to register disk datasets providing management of DASD space.