All-in-One Guides:Mainframe Management
Chapter 3: Mainframe Migration Considerations
Mainframe staffing issues
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COBOL skills needed in the future
03 Jan 2006
Article - There is just too much of this code out there to ignore, and future programmers would do well to cash in on the coming COBOL knowledge pool shortage.
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Workload consolidation attracts new blood to mainframe
Tip - At the recent Share conference, the IBM user group covered workload consolidation, Linux on the mainframe, distributed computing and mainframe education opportunities
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COBOL, Wintel generations must bury the hatchet
01 Nov 2006
Article - Some pundits and bloggers think that mature, COBOL generation IT workers should retire and get out of the way in order to make room for Wintel IT staff. Forrester analyst Phil Murphy explains why that idea is counterproductive.
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Is there a mainframe skills shortage?
Tip - As baby-boomer IT professionals retire over the next five to seven years, mainframe shops are going to have great difficulty managing their mainframe environments. But how serious is the mainframe skills shortage?
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Restocking the mainframe talent pool
03 Jan 2006
Article - With its zSeries Academic Initiative, IBM is hoping to bring in some of the best and brightest college students to help invigorate the mainframe, whose pros are starting to retire.
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Finding mainframe skills you never knew about
13 Oct 2005
Article - IBM's recent efforts to help companies cope with an aging workforce weren't aimed directly at mainframe pros, but they are a big part of that graying population. What skills do young IT pros need that they're not going to learn in college?
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Staffing often overlooked during platform migration
22 Mar 2005
Article - Hidden behind technical and fiscal issues surrounding migration lurks a question data center managers face -- What does migration mean to my current staff?
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Mainframe outsourcing trend beginning to reverse
Tip - For the last 15 years, the overall trend in IT has been towards outsourcing – but that trend is apparently beginning to reverse.
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High-tech job increases marred by skills shortage
04 Oct 2007
Article - A recent report shows that the U.S. high-tech industry added new jobs during the first half of 2006. Experts agree that more gains can be made in expanding jobs in the sector, but they disagree on how.