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April Survey: Managing Growth/Scaling - IBM Z
TechPulse is TechChannel’s sponsored monthly micro-survey program designed to capture real-time
sentiments and trends from IBM Z professionals.
1.
What is your primary role in your organization?
IT executive
Enterprise architect
Systems programmer
Capacity planner
Developer
IT operations
Procurement/vendor management
Other (please specify)
2.
Which type of workload is growing fastest in your organization?
AI/ML inferencing
AI/ML training
Core transaction processing
Batch processing
Data warehousing/analytics
API and integration services
Dev/Test
Streaming/real-time processing
Security/compliance workloads
Other (please specify)
3.
What is your organization’s primary strategic path for scaling core applications?
Scale in place: Increase MIPS/MSUs on-premises
Hybrid cloud: Keep core applications on-premises while extending/integrating with cloud services
Replatform/rehost to cloud: Migrate core applications off-premises to a cloud environment
Other (please specify)
4.
How confident is your organization in its ability to fully document and understand the business logic embedded in your core legacy applications before scaling or modernization efforts begin?
Very confident — We have comprehensive, up-to-date documentation
Somewhat confident — Documentation exists but has significant gaps
Not very confident — Documentation is outdated or incomplete
Not confident at all — Business logic is largely undocumented and understood only by specific individuals
We have not yet assessed this
5.
What is your organization's biggest challenge when it comes to preserving institutional knowledge as experienced legacy developers retire or transition out?
Lack of tools to automatically extract and document embedded business rules
Insufficient time and resources to conduct manual knowledge transfer
Difficulty translating legacy system expertise into terms modern teams can act on
No formal process exists for capturing this knowledge
Retaining experienced staff long enough to complete transfers
This is not currently a significant concern for our organization
Other (please specify)
6.
Would you like to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Visa gift card for completing this survey? (If "yes," please provide name and email below.)
Yes
No
7.
Please provide your name and email address
