Investigating the removal of Compile Option for XML protocol to Provider Agent

We are currently gathering opinions about
forcing just the

Binary protocol between provagt and Server defined by:

PEGASUS_ENABLE_PROTOCOL_INTERNAL_BINARY

and eliminating the XML option.

The reason for the binary protocol was to make a more efficient mechanism
and

in general that has happened. The binary protocol helps to avoid XML writing
and parsing between the CIM Server and CIM provider agents which reduces
the overhead drastically.

The reason we consider removing the
option and start working with the binary only protocol is simply to reduce
the code complexity.

The default for a while now is to use
the binary protocol, actually matter of fact is that the XML option is
broken for close to a year now (since OP 2.10).

Please supply your opinions and reasons for either keeping this option
or

removing it and we will discuss. I am especially interested in use cases
for keeping this option.

Rest of the ongoing discussion you can
find here: http://bugzilla.openpegasus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8902

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Marek Szermutzky

Software Engineer / OpenPegasus Maintainer (PMC) and z/OS PlatformRep.

IBM Systems &Technology Group, Systems Software Development / z/OS
Capacity Management and Support

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