For an ISV, or even a contractor/consultant needing a z/OS image for work on behalf of clients, source code security and data privacy would likely be high priority items. Of course any environment can be breached, whether by internal folks with sufficient access or externally, but I suspect many ISVs place a high degree of trust and confidence in IBM's RDP, and from what I've seen, don't believe that trust is misplaced.
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