Long live the #DIE macro !! My years at MORINO->LEGENT supporting MICS VCC (DASD/DFHSM collector) aside my dev-guy colleague and recently-passed John Adams (and also Keith Hatton, his predecessor) were always filled with his XDC antics (multi-tasking address space) out of pure amazement, along with the decades of very-fine support//guidance from you Dave and others a Cole Software !!
A genuine: Thank you !! Regards, Scott Barry SBBTech LLC On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 01:38:01 -0400, David Cole <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
