Re: SEU and V7R1.

On 19 Jun 2013 10:09, Nathan Andelin wrote:

<<SNIP>> I don't think it's a question of profitability in this case,
but rather a question of whether whether IBM might be willing to
support both thin (PDM/SEU) and THICK (Rational Developer) interfaces
on the platform.

Your are correct. Profitability is not an issue with regard to getting additional capabilities in SEU. The issue is considered to be cost recovery.

My point is that IBM is in effect no longer spending money on SEU, so any income from the revenue-generating LPP that provides SEU, now goes directly into funding whatever else they are developing [which is not SEU]. Thus if someone wants money spent on SEU, then that someone will have to pay for it; i.e. to finance developer(s) working under a contract that will justify their employment while providing that change to SEU instead of providing some other revenue-producing feature, or to finance developer(s) working to provide a PRPQ for which there is a presumption that the first sale plus future sales will recoup their salaried development time. The development time would include both adding the capabilities and design\develop of the deployment mechanism. But then there is the additional costs of effective packaging and delivery, because the code is no longer being delivered within the base option(s) of the LPP and the associated licensing; under something like Lab Services, the enhancement could be a bullet-point on a chart of what is available, and the effective S&H could end up being the consulting\contracting fees for the IBM consultant to install the feature beyond whatever else they are providing under the contract.

I put my money on thin interfaces. But if IBM forces
us to the latter,

I thought that direction was already made clear... if only by the noted freezing of the level of syntax-checking support for SEU.

I'm not going to kick and scream about it.

Little use in pining for it [here] either. The only way to get the capability is to ask IBM. However as I alluded, I am confident that the only way to get the function will require a willingness to pay extra, to directly fund the enhancements.