Linux® on the Mainframe

16.2. Change management

Companies that intend to survive in today's rapidly changing world must constantly adapt to these changes. It is important to remember that unregulated change can be just as disastrous as a reluctance or refusal to undergo change. Controlled change is a change toward a well-defined destination, with a clear idea of the cost and risks involved. In a Linux-onthe-mainframe environment with numerous Linux images and possibly traditional operating systems all on one machine, there are both challenges and opportunities for change management. In this section, we describe in some detail our hypothetical companies' change management strategies to represent the diverse successful approaches to change management in real-world Linux-on-the-mainframe ...