John McKown writes: >Maybe it means that IBM wishes every ISPF (development) >shop to use WDz. Which is more profitable to IBM. <cynicism/>
Uh, no. Your mileage may vary, but Rational Developer for System z tends to be more parsimonious in its use of mainframe CPU resources, at least with typical usage patterns. If those are peak monthly 4-hour rolling average CPU resources, then you would see a financial benefit in using RDz. Again, how much financial benefit will vary. Any financial benefit mostly comes at IBM's expense. Enjoy. :-) My own view is that "most" developers should be using RDz for very sensible business and financial reasons. But that's "most," not all. In "most" development organizations a mix of RDz and ISPF (probably also with the ISPF Productivity Tool, formerly known as SPIFFY, and/or other ISPF utilities) is the best formula. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
