News - Press Release - October 2007

COLE SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES THE GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF z/XDC^® z1.9

AFTON, Va. , October 15, 2007/ -- z/XDC^® z1.9, the newest release in the XDC line of Assembler development tools is now available!

Cole Software LLC is pleased to announce the general availability of z/XDC^® release z1.9. Updates and enhancements to this release include:

• Entirely rewritten support for using REXX to create user written z/XDC commands.
• Support for displaying Binary Floating Point registers and data.
• Support for displaying Decimal Floating Point registers, data, and machine instructions.
• Support for building, maintaining, and displaying a user program's Branch History Table.
• Updates to support z/OS V1.9 including:
• Support for the new configuration setting, REFRPROT, which affects how the System loads refreshable modules into storage.
• Support for several API changes
• New commands including LIST PROFILES, LIST ENQ, and LIST SSCT (which displays information about currently defined or active subsystems).
• Improved displays in the READ commands output.
• Licensing process support for more than 30 CPUs and/or SYSPLEXs.

Detailed information about all the updates in z/XDC z1.9 is available in the z/XDC z1.9 Release Guide. You can download the guide from the Support section of Cole Softwares web site at http://www.colesoft.com/support_doc_zxdc9.shtml.

z/XDC z1.9 is the latest in a long line of comprehensive debugging tools developed by Cole Software's owner and lead developer, David Cole. z/XDC dramatically reduces the amount of time programmers spend debugging low-level object code, no matter how complex.

Please note that z/XDC z1.9 is only available via download from a "customer-only" section of the Cole Software web site. To access our download page, email Robert W. Shimizu at bshimizu@colesoft.com or Wendie Wyant at wlwyant@colesoft.com .

For more information about purchasing or upgrading to z/XDC z1.9, email Robert Shimizu or give him a call at (800) XDC-5150.