This instrument measures what dashboards do not: how mainframe teams actually operate — the informal protocols, the invisible workload, the knowledge held in people rather than systems, and the conditions that determine whether the platform is sustainable.
There are no right answers and no performance evaluation. The most valuable response is the honest one — including "I don't know" and "prefer not to say", which are always available and never penalized.
Tip: on a keyboard, press 1–9 to answer the question in view.
Operational patterns only make sense against the shape of the team behind them.
Progress is held only while this tab stays open — nothing is stored once you leave the page.
Think of a typical recent week — not the ideal week, the real one.
These questions are about conditions, not about you. Answer for how things are, not how they should be.
Culture is what actually happens, not what is said. Each scenario below has happened somewhere — pick the outcome closest to your organization's reality.
This is the core of the Index. You operate this platform — no audit or vendor report can replicate what you know. Write as much or as little as you want.
Once submitted, your response is de-identified permanently. You'll receive a random receipt ID — the only reference to your submission that will ever exist.
Your response is now part of the MOMCI 2026 dataset — anonymous, structural, and answerable only to practitioners. Findings will be published openly at mainframeresearch.com.
Your anonymous receipt ID is the only proof your response exists — the single reference to your submission that will ever be issued. Screenshot it or write it down if you want a record; it cannot be recovered later. Nobody — including the researchers — can connect it to you.
Want to stay involved — follow-up interviews or early findings? Optional sign-up here. It is completely separate from your response: the sign-up and the survey data have no connection in the data model.
If colleagues operate mainframe systems, consider passing the Index along — every additional practitioner sharpens the picture.