This research brief documents key findings gathered from interviews with 270 mainframe IT and business managers.
Conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP), the interviews explored a range of topics relating to mainframe usage, investment and staffing:
- The depletion of a technically competent workforce due to retirement
- Migration of processing away from or to the mainframe for new application processing
- Perceptions of professionals on the characteristics and usability of today’s mainframe systems
- What actions professionals would favor in addressing the potential depletion of mainframe support staff