Miklos Szigetvari writes: >On the hardware side , as we are software development company , we >need a SYSPLEX with different z/OS releases, >and a "strong" CPU which could compile our sources in a "acceptable" >time frame. >We compile now in the z/800 about 18 hours, in the fastest Unix servers >the same is about 2 hours.
My guess is you've got a uniprocessor-friendly workload, but I'm curious to hear back what you discover. How often do you do recompiles for things like syntax checking? Conceivably you could see some benefit to using Rational Developer for System z to handle the code syntax checking right on the developer PC. Starting in V7.0 it supports C/C++. Also a shout out to the Dignus people here, which is an alternative or additional option. >The code is 98% C++, and we would like to test the optimised code for >the z9 machines . > We deliver currently the code optimised for 9672. >Here is als a question: how to deal with the possibilty to generate code >for different hardware architecture levels. You can certainly do that, and there's been a lot of discussion on the list previously about the "best" ways to support different hardware architectures from the same product, from both support and technical points of view. There's also the interesting option of METAL C (in the z/OS 1.9 compiler and above), which might be of particular interest to an ISV like you. As general (and perhaps unsurprising) advice I'd say that you only need to support the newer instructions (even optionally) if they benefit your product. There are various hardware features you can use that do not depend on the presence of the actual hardware. One notable example is the zIIP. If you zIIP-enable your product (or part of your product), it still runs on non-zIIP-equipped hardware. I believe many (but not all) of the ICSF (cryptographic) services are like that, too, to pick another example. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM 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
