Thanks Martin, I hope IBM is proud of the manner in which authorized ISVs have adopted the zIIP. Admittedly, for some of us, it become an obcession. In part, this was due to the fact that the bulk of our product is written in c/c++, and it runs under CICS. zIIP enabling code with those characteristics proves to be rather challenging! However, it was well worth it. Customers love the fact that our integration software is completely zIIP enabled.
I think customers are content to spend valuable GP mips on valuable application logic. However, spending GP mips on integration, "plumbing", and data transformation makes no economic sense today. Thus, by zIIP enabling our integration products we have seen customers drive more z/OS workload. And, the fact that they can depoly z/OS-based services, written in a modern language like JavaScript and running on the zIIP, encourages them to run new workload on System z. We are currently doing the same thing with Redis for z/OS. Thanks for championing the zIIP-enablement cause over the years. Russ
