IOW, if enough customers were to switch to a competitive zIIP-enabled sort product, the technical issues might magically be solved ;-)
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:47:49 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > > >Different products mean different technical considerations and > >optimizations. It's just that simple. For DB2 Sort for z/OS, zIIP > >exploitation makes technical sense. For DFSORT -- except for exploiting > >zIIPs on behalf of DB2 utilities and in other ancillary ways -- it doesn't > >seem to make technical sense. Maybe in the future, as the technologies > >change and evolve, it will. > > > I find it hard to believe that optimization of revenue was not a > consideration. > Andy White's post following yours suggests that, and that the choice may > have been counterproductive. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
