Blah, blah -- we hear constantly about the oncoming (or current!) brain drain of a mainframer generation retiring. We certainly hear on these lists about individuals retiring (and congratulations for that!).
So, is it a crisis or is it about as well predicted and handled as Y2K (that is, anticipated/understood well in advance and dealt with)? What are installations doing about it besides denying it, panicking, threatening/pretending to abandon the mainframe? What are YOU doing about it -- not preparing for retirement, I mean, but training successors? How is knowledge transferred? Mentoring (formal, informal?) Are new employees given the same sort of education/training opportunities available years ago or is it ... self-study, OJT, watch/learn/hope/do/train? What's in fashion now for career planning as people join the mainframe community? Are there differences across mainframe environments (z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, Linux for System z, TPF)? Variations within those (CICS, IMS, DB2)? Are some environments dwindling because of skills shortages? Etc. Reply/copy directly to me please so comments aren't buried in list digests. Thanks... -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
