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mfusage2.001&nrt&2&N&1. What kind of industry is your business in?<br>e.g. financial services, manufacturing, retail, etc.&16384&&&&&&1.0&&&&&4&&&Y.<i>What is your job title?</i>
mfusage2.002&mcm&0&N&2. Which of the following applications are you running on your <br>mainframe that you were NOT running on the mainframe a year or <br>two ago?&&ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning);CRM (Customer Relationship Management);SCM (Supply Chain Management);OLTP (online transaction processing), batch;Decision support (including data warehousing/data analysis/data mining);Collaboration (including email and Groupware);Application Development;File and Print;Networking (including proxy);Security;Systems Management;Web Serving/Web Application Serving;Scientific Engineering;Streaming Media;Other (please describe in comments box);&&&&a&1.0&2.0&&&&1&&&Y.<i>Please comment here as needed on any of the above responses </i>
mfusage2.003&mcm&0&N&3. Which of the following applications have you <i>quit running on <br>your mainframe</i> that you were running on the mainframe one or <br>two years ago?&&ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning);CRM (Customer Relationship Management);SCM (Supply Chain Management);OLTP (online transaction processing), batch;Decision support (including data warehousing/data analysis/data mining);Collaboration (including email and Groupware);Application Development;File and Print;Networking (including proxy);Security;Systems Management;Web Serving/Web Application Serving;Scientific Engineering;Streaming Media;Other (please describe in comments box);&&&&a&1.0&2.0&&&&1&&&Y.<i>Please comment here as needed on any of the above responses </i>
mfusage2.004&nrt&0&N&4. Why did you quit running them on the mainframe?&16384&&&&&&1.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.005&nrt&0&N&5. On what platform is that application running now?&16384&&&&&&1.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.006&nrt&2&N&6. What value does your organization derive from the <br>zSeries mainframe that cannot be accomplished by any <br>other server platform (Intel, Unix, etc.)?&16384&&&&&&undefined.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.007&nrt&2&N&7. For mainframes supporting the external side of the <br>business, on average, how many customer transactions <br>occur on one of your mainframes daily? How many mainframes do you <br>have that predominantly support the external side of the business? <br>Please describe the types of transactions, e.g. credit card processing, <br>security control, account updates, loan applications, etc. <br>Here we want to know how many people (your customers) <br>are being served by mainframes in their daily/monthly activities.&16384&&&&&&2.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.008&nrt&0&N&8. For mainframes supporting the internal side of the business, <br>on average, how many customer transactions occur on one of <br>your mainframes daily? How many mainframes do you have <br>that predominantly support the internal side of the business?<br>Please describe the types of transactions, e.g. payroll, bills of <br>material, etc. Here we want to know how many employees or <br>business partners are being served and how they are being served by mainframes.&16384&&&&&&2.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.009&mcs&0&N&9. How many mainframes does your organization use?&&1;2;3;4;5;6 to 10;11 to 25;26 to 50;more than 50;&&&&x&2.0&&&&&1:v&&&Y.<i>If you have more than 5 mainframes, please give the exact <br>number here - and please identify how many speciality processors <br>are being used, such as the IFL and/or zAAP<br> Also, if you have one mainframe installed, please estimate <br>the percentage split of mainframe capacity used to provide external <br>versus internal services and estimate the number of daily <br>transactions for external versus internal applications</i>
mfusage2.010&nrt&0&N&10. What do you do to quantify the value zSeries brings to <br>your organization, e.g. what is the return-on-invesment (ROI) formula you use? <br>Do you measure cost per user, software costs, people costs, and/or cost of <br>downtime? Please describe anything you do to quantify the value of zSeries. &16384&&&&&&4.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.011&nrt&0&N&11. Knowing that the <i>mainframe</i> has many different connotations <br>to business executives, what is the winning argument you use <br>to influence others to use the mainframe? &16384&&&&&&3.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.012&nrt&0&N&12. Can you give me an example of a recent success story and <br>how that impacted your company's bottom line?&16384&&&&&&3.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.013&nrt&0&N&13. What is the number one thing IBM has done to keep the <br>mainframe relevant to your organization?&16384&&&&&&3.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.014&nrt&2&Y&What do you do to quantify the value zSeries brings to your organization? <br>e.g. what is the ROI formula you use?&16384&&&&&&3.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.015&nrt&2&Y&What type of new applications are you running on the mainframe? <br><br><i>Please provide as much information as you can. <br>e.g. how the rollout went, lessons learned, <br>and if your using speciality processors like the IFL and zAAP.</i>&16384&&&&&&4.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.016&nrt&0&N&14. Are you familiar with the Mainframe Charter: Innovation, Value <br>and Community? In your view, is IBM fulfilling this promise? <br>If you haven't heard of it simply respond "not familiar."&16384&&&&&&undefined.0&5.0&&&&1&&&N.
mfusage2.017&nrt&0&N&15. Other comments: <br><i>Please comment here on any of your previous responses, <br>or to add anything you think is of interest but was <br>not covered by the survey. </i>&16384&&&&&&undefined.0&&&&&4&&&N.
mfusage2.018&nrt&2&Y&In what ways are people served by your mainframes? <br><br><i>Please provide as much detail as possible.</i>&16384&&&&&&3.0&&&&&4&&&N.
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