Engage in digital Applications Development, risk technology, Middleware, Mainframe applications, Non Mainframe applications, Analytic Model Development and Application Support activities to meet specific Business Needs of user areas and to test systems to ensure integrity of deliverables.

More Uses of the Mainframe Toolkit:


• Ensure you accumulate; lead systems it As A Service, Managed Services for servers, Mainframe, storage, leveraging cognitive analytics and robotics.
  
  

• Arrange that your venture supports and maintains servers, networks, messaging, Mainframes, Database Environments and/or host infrastructures.
  
  

• Ensure you delegate; lead with extensive knowledge in Mainframe and Legacy Modernization techniques and related tools and approaches.
  
  

• Confirm your enterprise complies; roles are aligned to your Large Systems (LS) group who ensure the smooth and effective functioning of your Mainframe system and applications.
  
  

• Provide Production Support Activities for applications in a Mainframe environment using COBOL programming language in a Mainframe environment.
  
  

• Apply Mainframe engineering Best Practices in order to analyze, design and develop deploy and support Software Solutions, and/or infrastructure implementations/upgrades.
  
  

• Warrant that your planning delivers technological requirements as server, desktop, local service, Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, Data Centers, Mainframes, small server configuration, and backup services for small technology engagements, to meet Business Needs.
  
  

• Drive: administration, design, implementation and support highly available and scalable Mainframe DB2 and IMS database solutions.
  
  

• Deploy orders from Mainframe WMS system to the shipping system in a manner that provides consistent flow of work to the shipping sites in proper sequence to fulfill Customer Requirements and on time accuracy.
  
  

• Collect and organize data from Mainframe files, Data Warehouse reports, vendor extracts, departmental spreadsheets and databases, and internet/intranet sites for easy use by internal business and analytical clients.
  
  

• Establish: identification of common integration points across multiple Mainframe applications and determining the best approach for checkout of points.
  
  

• Outperform coordinate and establishes Business Continuity programs and business resumption planning across Mainframes and medium Client Server platforms to ensurE Business continuity.
  
  

• Pilot: in an industry rooted in Mainframe systems and batch processes, you are driving toward a Cloud Based, API/microservice architected, Real Time Data environment.
  
  

• Confirm your strategy coordinates the Mainframe activities of Data Processing operations with programming, Systems Analysis, and with users.
  
  

• Perform user and access administration activities for Active Directory, Windows, Unix, Mainframe, and Custom Applications.
  
  

• Be accountable for the accuracy, process, integrity, quality and stewardship of client Mainframe Infrastructure Solutions.
  
  

• Ensure you have helped companies build new capabilities and drive savings by migrating mission Critical Applications off of the Mainframe.
  
  

• Support multiple internal and External Stakeholders that use web, Mainframe, and Distributed Systems technologies.
  
  

• Ensure you engineer; lead systems it As A Service, Managed Services for servers, Mainframe, Storage As A Service, leveraging analytics and AI in the Data Center.
  
  

• Perform the Impact Analysis for the Database, ETL and Mainframe components from the new Application Development perspective.
  
  

• Ensure you assess; recommend Corrective Actions to fix the Application Security related problems as User Access / management in the Mainframe / RACF applications.
  
  

• Formulate: implement Firewalls, mid range systems, networks, distributed and Mainframe platforms, and associated Development Environments.
  
  

• Apply Application Security principles to interpret security standards, procedures, and guidelines for multiple platforms and diverse environments (Client Server, distributed, and Mainframe).
  
  

• Make sure that your group enhances Existing Applications on workstations, Local Area Networks, Mainframe, and Cloud Based technology to meet changing Business Needs.
  
  

• Warrant that your organization provides expert level System Analysis, design, development, implementation, and testing of data centric applications in a Mainframe environment.
  
  

• Convert formulate and execute on defined Cloud Technology vision for Mainframe DB2 data and organize Cloud Systems, resources, subscriptions, etc.
  
  

• Ensure your organization complies; as trusted Customer Advocates, the Mainframe Modernization Practice helps organizations understand Best Practices around advanced Cloud Based Solutions, how to migrate and/or re develop existing legacy workloads to the cloud.
  
  

• Organize: work closely with all levels of Enterprise Services to deploy and support your Mainframe infrastructure and application stack.
  
  

• Be accountable for using informatica power exchange connector to read DB2 Mainframe sales system data and load into Salesforce (Sales And Marketing clouds) using Salesforce connector.
  
  

• Confirm your project ensures the teams strategy enables successful execution of operations and Service Delivery, Infrastructure Software and Platform Engineering, infrastructure development engineering and automation, Network Engineering, and Mainframe services.
  
  


Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Mainframe Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Mainframe related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Mainframe specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Mainframe Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Mainframe improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Is the Mainframe scope complete and appropriately sized?
   
   

2. What could cause you to change course?
   
   

3. Which Mainframe goals are the most important?
   
   

4. If you could go back in time five years, what decision would you make differently? What is your best guess as to what decision you're making today you might regret five years from now?
   
   

5. How can auditing be a preventative security measure?
   
   

6. Are you missing Mainframe opportunities?
   
   

7. Have changes been properly/adequately analyzed for effect?
   
   

8. How do you measure success?
   
   

9. Do several people in different organizational units assist with the Mainframe process?
   
   

10. Is the Mainframe solution sustainable?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Mainframe book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Mainframe self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Mainframe Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Mainframe areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Mainframe Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Mainframe projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Mainframe Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Mainframe project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Mainframe project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the Mainframe Project Team have enough people to execute the Mainframe Project Plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Mainframe Project Plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


 
Step-by-step and complete Mainframe Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Mainframe project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Mainframe Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Mainframe Project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Mainframe project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Mainframe project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Mainframe project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Mainframe project with this in-depth Mainframe Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Mainframe projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Mainframe and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Mainframe investments work better.

This Mainframe All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.