IBM Z Resiliency

We would like to hear about your views of IBM Z system and application resilience: the ability to rapidly adapt and respond to any internal or external IT disruption, demand, or threat, and continue business operations without significant impact.

We want to understand how important resiliency is to your business and the problem areas which keep you from the advantages of IBM Z resiliency.

1. What is your primary job role? *This question is required.

2. How does resiliency relate to your job role?

3. How confident are you that your shop has the resiliency you need?

	1	2	3	4	5
Confident	1	2	3	4	5	Uncertain

4. In your own words, explain what contributes to the confidence you have in your shop's resiliency.

5. Do you have a project underway to improve resiliency in your systems and applications? Select all that apply

We continually consider and update our environment for resiliency
Yes, we have a project underway
No, we do not currently have a project underway, but plan to in the near future
No, we don't have one underway, with no plans, but I feel we should
No, we do not have a current project on resiliency, and have no immediate plans
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

6. In your own words, explain the project and how it addresses resiliency.

6. Rate how well IBM Z supports your business in the following categories. Be sure to include operating systems such as z/OS and Linux for IBM Z in your assessment.

Space Cell	Excellent	Good	Good enough	Needs work	Not sure
System error recovery when problems occur	System error recovery when problems occur : Excellent	System error recovery when problems occur : Good	System error recovery when problems occur : Good enough	System error recovery when problems occur : Needs work	System error recovery when problems occur : Not sure
Middleware error recovery	Middleware error recovery : Excellent	Middleware error recovery : Good	Middleware error recovery : Good enough	Middleware error recovery : Needs work	Middleware error recovery : Not sure
Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC)	Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC): Excellent	Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC): Good	Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC): Good enough	Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC): Needs work	Collection of diagnostic data when problems occur (first failure data capture - FFDC): Not sure
Monitoring for performance	Monitoring for performance: Excellent	Monitoring for performance: Good	Monitoring for performance: Good enough	Monitoring for performance: Needs work	Monitoring for performance: Not sure
System availability	System availability : Excellent	System availability : Good	System availability : Good enough	System availability : Needs work	System availability : Not sure
Application availability	Application availability: Excellent	Application availability: Good	Application availability: Good enough	Application availability: Needs work	Application availability: Not sure
Disaster recovery	Disaster recovery : Excellent	Disaster recovery : Good	Disaster recovery : Good enough	Disaster recovery : Needs work	Disaster recovery : Not sure
Enter another option	Other: Excellent	Other: Good	Other: Good enough	Other: Needs work	Other: Not sure

7. In your own words, what is the biggest obstacle to taking advantage of the resiliency features of IBM Z (including operating systems such as z/OS and Linux for IBM Z)?

8. May we contact you to discuss this survey and resiliency? *This question is required.

9. Contact information

First Name

Last Name

Job Role

Company Name

Email Address

What size is your business?