Under its PL/I agreement with IBM Corp’s Programming Systems unit (CI No 2,166), Newbury, Berkshire-based Micro Focus Plc will deliver MVS PL/I emulation under OS/2: it has licensed the PL/I compiler and debugging technology will market it with a PL/I version of the Micro Focus ADMVS MVS emulation development environment from September. The company worked closely with IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory in San Jose to develop a highly integrated MVS PL/I application development environment for OS/2, which will support the Micro Focus IMS, CICS and DB2 options. PL/I for ADMVS has the look and feel of TSO/ISPF and provides an integrated environment for MVS PL/I development under OS/2. PL/I application developers can browse, edit, allocate files and data sets, compile and interactively test programs, run job streams using MVS JCL, and execute utilities. The menu panels enables all of the functions performed on a daily basis under MVS to be done under OS/2, Micro Focus says. It includes support for EBCDIC format, 370 integers, ISPF editing, ISPF PDF, JCL and ISPF Dialog Manager under OS/2, and unique features invoke appropriate pre-processors when compiling IMS, CICS and DB2 PL/I programs. IMS and CICS testing and management facilities for OS/2 can be accessed directly from ADMVS panels. The PL/I for ADMVS compiler adds a number of new functions, new compiler options, diagnostic facilities and subroutines which can increase productivity by simplifying many common programming tasks. Program interrupts or exception conditions that occur at run time can be detected by the hardware, the operating system or other software, or PL/I for ADMVS itself, the company says. Using these facilities, users can handle these exceptions to write applications that provide non-stop operation, Micro Focus claims. There will be an upgrade offer to PL/I for ADMVS for users of IBM PL/I Package/2 Version 1. No word on price.
