David said, "To me it's a no-brainer but convincing mainframers to step outside of their comfort zone is difficult."
I have to disagree, partly, with that. In the course of my career, I have been forced repeatedly to learn spiffy new things. As I started working the mainframe in 1977, it's easy to grasp the magnitude of changes so many of us have successfully learned and integrated into our daily routines. The key here is risk management. Lizette made the point very well the seriousness of a mainframe outage. An outage traced to non-approved software in production is very likely a career ending event for the people involved, and possibly their managers. Then take into account the business impact. It's not that we don't want to play with the shiny new toys. Living in cardboard boxes is just so unappealing. Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
