How Mainframe Performance Teams are Solving Their Skills Gap Challenges | IntelliMagic zAcademy

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The mainframe runs mission-critical work. Performance and capacity teams work tirelessly to avoid preventable service disruptions and to minimize expense, seeking to achieve this despite decreasing staffing levels.

There are few mainframe teams who don’t have experienced personnel closing in on (or already surpassing) retirement age. These tenured staff members are often the last line of defense supporting legacy home-grown reporting tooling. Yet staff shortages and demanding workloads combine to minimize the success rate of skills transfer initiatives, however well-intentioned.

Without the ability to retain experts to maintain in-house tooling and to interpret the increasingly complex metrics, the likelihood of avoidable service disruptions and their related business impacts increases significantly.

This webinar discusses strategies to:

• Leverage the computer as a force multiplier expanding the analytical effectiveness of teams operating with sharply reduced staffing levels
• Expedite the process of getting less tenured staff up to speed so they can contribute
• Eliminate barriers to rapid learning including the need to write programs or master siloed legacy tooling
• Enable experienced staff to rapidly learn and contribute in areas outside their primary expertise
• Modernize SMF data processing and analysis to succeed in the face of the “brain drain” from widespread retirements and shrinking staffing levels

Business as usual approaches are unlikely to succeed in the face of today’s daunting skills gap challenges. When watching this webinar you can expect to learn proven strategies being leveraged by companies to optimize mainframe availability and performance.