Dear Dave, I am sad to hear that you are "leaving the scene" after all the help and the sharing of your seemingly boundless knowledge you have given to us for so long.
You will be sorely missed. I (and I am sure many others on this list) feel grateful to have known and worked with you. Enjoy whatever the next phase of your life brings you. I wish health and happiness to you and to your family. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2025 1:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: My time at Colesoft Marketing has ended As of this date (November 1st, 2025), my and my son's association with Colesoft Marketing has ended. It has been a long, sweet ride, but now it is over. However, this is not the end of the line for z/XDC, quite the opposite in fact. The development team remains, and future plans are exciting, so stay tuned. I want to thank the developers, Mike, Frank, Peter, Cleon, Amber and Chris, for their loyalty to me, to the company and to the product. They are a first class development team, and they will have the pleasure of bring z/XDC into new arenas, while I will have the pleasure of resting. I especially want to thank Mike and Frank whose contributions to z/XDC and its support have been epic! Mike joined me at in the 1980s way back at the very beginning. He was the designer of the 3270 fullscreen interface which has been the face of z/XDC ever since. Frank came on board in the 1990s as the newest of newbies. He went from zero to becoming an absolute maven on his own! He developed a deep knowledge of assembler, of z/XDC, of z/OS, of Windows, of Linux, of languages and tools I've never heard of... of everything he needed to, and a lot more. Today, he is by far the best troubleshooter I have ever known. And of course, his coding skills are superior! While I'm focusing on the long term friends, I am by no means want to slight the newer guys. Peter and Chris bring with them lifetimes of knowledge and skill, while Cleon and Amber are helping to bring z/XDC into new worlds. I also want to thank Wendie, Tamara and Dolly for their decades of loyalty to me and the company that I created. Tamara and Wendie built the back-office from scratch, and Dolly kept in clean. And of course there's Bob. He joined up with me in the 1980s at the very beginning and became the face of z/XDC to so many of you. He was a constant presence for our customers, knocking on doors, learning what people liked, reporting to me what they didn't like or were confused about or was broken, running classes that trained so many of you! He was a major reason for Colesoft's excellent reputation with out customers! I will miss these people. But it is time for me to go. And now I'm gone. Dave Cole Developer and Code Poet -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
