The recent news from Compuware's study of CIO's planning for the looming mainframe skills shortage is not surprising. Compuware did a similar study in April 2012 and found that 71% of CIOs were worried about the mainframe skills shortages looming due to the first set of baby boomers reaching their retirement age. In the recent study, 70% of the 350 CIOs are concerned with the lack of mainframe training and knowledge transfer will be an issue and risk. What was a bit more alarming is that 39% of those CIOs have no plans to address this risk. The survey also shows a few interesting statistics: 88% believe their mainframe would remain a key business asset for at least the next ten years 81% see their mainframe running new and different workloads driven heavily by distributed applications 78% see the mainframe enabling innovation So given these new findings, this is a perfect opportunity for future mainframers or existing ones, to get the proper training they ...
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