Hiring, training, and developing a new generation of mainframe experts is not easy

Two facts:

-       A lot of experience goes out of the door when a baby boomer retires

-       Fewer new graduates are seeking careers in IT

The mainframe isn’t perceived as the latest and greatest technology that younger IT professionals want to work with either.  Hiring, training, and developing a new generation of mainframe experts isn't easy.
Just recently, the USA Today published an article that describes this problem well.  Universities are no longer teaching the skills that graduates need in order to seek out mainframe jobs:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-15/Detroit-mainframe-worker-shortage/57066816/1?

This dearth of young mainframe talent should be a real concern for senior managers and CIOs. 

When the experienced mainframe people in your organization decide to buy the fishing boat and sail off into the sunset, will you be able to support your mission critical services that rely on and are underpinned by the mainframe?

Expertise doesn’t have to mean people however.  Having the right toolset in place with expert knowledge built in can help fill the gaps left when the baby boomers move on. 

There is a ‘new kid on the block’ who can help.  ES/1 NEO from Metron is one expert system with years of mainframe performance and tuning advice built in.  Implemented in minutes it puts all that knowledge and experience at the fingertips of your mainframe team.  A system like this can also help train new staff, teaching them the knowledge that has taken retirees many years to gather through experience.

Already depended on by household names such as Panasonic, Toyota and Bank of Tokyo, ES/1 NEO brings together performance analysis across all aspects of z/OS, and recommends specific tuning actions to eradicate bottlenecks and improve service.

http://www.metron-athene.com/software/ES1-NEO/index.html


Rich Fronheiser
SVP, Strategic Marketing