tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750297140750368021.post2123772548726250696..comments2023-11-13T02:59:09.581+00:00Comments on Mainframe Update: Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2011 user surveyTrevor Eddollshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01503760088127669481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750297140750368021.post-80602719763604265402011-02-25T08:04:23.214+00:002011-02-25T08:04:23.214+00:00Good read Trevor. It is funny to sdee that your re...Good read Trevor. It is funny to sdee that your results match with earlier surveys I have seen. There is however one particular issue I have noticed about the "Cloud acceptance" most surveys talk about. In the past months, I frequently heard;"No Cloud on our Mainframe (yet)". But when asking further, I am finding that many mainframers have already been involved in projects to extract Mainframe data that is somehow used by (or exported to) Cloud applications AND have been confronted with data that somehow hs to be moved back into the production database on the Mainframe. Nothing new here, this already happened daily for all kinds of Distributed applications (on average, we pump about 3 times the size of the production Mainframe database accross the network every day..). But the load on the Mainframe and the amount of work this causes has already had an effect on the already understaffed Mainframe people. And this will only get worse. So without us noticing, we are already slowly feeling the impact of Cloud computing. As you rightly state, this extra workload must somehow be be done by new (younger) people who are not used to Mainframe apps. I am curious to see if people think that the launch of new tools (like this one: http://bit.ly/eoJslQ) and a new ways of training will really help us solving this problem. Curious to see what your readers think....zMarcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17276014108783870741noreply@blogger.com