Does the "-Z prod" option when creating PAS instances have an impact on development or debugging?

[ChadThomsonPSC]

"Does the -Z prod have an impact on developer studio process (e.g. debugging)"

[ChadThomsonPSC]

In short: no.

The "-Z prod" switch used when creating instaces merely sets file-system security and runtime behavioral defaults (e.g. how much information is returned to clients when an unhandled exception is encountered). As well, all transports (/web/,/rest/,/apsv) are disabled by-default. Otherwise, everything else works the same as "-Z dev"

The security model of a PAS instance is not related the product license or runtime capabilities.
For example, when deployed solely with a production PAS license, an instance can still be created with the "-Z dev" model, but that doesn't enable compilation capabilities.