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Colesoft announces partnership with Vertali!

Colesoft announces partnership with Vertali!

ColeSoft Signs Reseller Agreement with UK-Based Mainframe IT Leader Vertali 

Mainframe Engineering: The Heavy Weight of Debugging

Check out our recent article in TechChannel!

Colesoft announces partnership with Izzi Software!

We are excited to announce that Colesoft Marketing Inc has officially joined the Izzi Software family!

z/XDC's Built-in Help is now on the web! [woohoo!]

we have started publishing z/XDC's Built-in Help as web pages that are far more user friendly than z/XDC's classic HELP command. The pages contain the same topics as the classic Built-in Help, but they have several additional features:

XDCADATA Utility Improvements

The XDCADATA utility filters ADATA files to remove excess ADATA. When properly set up, size reductions up to 90% or more could be achieved. Two changes have been made, one to make it easier to identify DSECT maps to be excluded, the other to increase the size reduction even more!

Major Performance Improvement for c/XDC users!

Starting with update DBC-2302H, c/XDC users will notice two things: They will quickly notice that the CWIDE and C80 profiles no longer display a LIST VSTACK command in their Watch Window. They will also notice that STEP commands (PF9, PF10 and PF11) no longer perform sluggishly. These two facts are related.

Using ALETs and Accessing Dataspaces with Dump/XDC

Just as classic z/XDC can access dataspaces in live storage, so can dump/XDC access dataspaces contained within a dump. Also like classic z/XDC, dump/XDC uses ALETs for accessing dataspaces.

The LIST RSA Command Has Been Fixed and Modernized!

At long last, we have turned our attention to the long languishing LIST RSA command and brought it forward into the modern era!

SYSPROGs: The z/XDC Maintenance Update Process has Changed!

We have made major changes to the processes for performing both maintenance updates and initial product installs: WRT initial installs, we have completely done away with the use of SMP/E. Now the process is a straightforward unTERSE of an XMITs collection library followed by an XMIT-RECEIVEs job to create the several Product Libraries. WRT maintenance updates, these now do full replacements of all Product Library content. This means that the product shipment package for both initial installs and maintenance updates is the identically the same file for both purposes.

Major Performance Fix

Update DBC-2207D fixes a major performance bug in z/XDC. We urge all customers to download and install the fix as soon as possible...