v1.8.1

[v1.8.1]

Added

Changes to fully support running zCICS in Unix based OSes

• 091712a - Enable zCICS to run on Linux/MacOS (John Ganci)
• 585e957 - Make bat/DFHALL.BAT COBOL SYSMAC and SYSCPY consistent with bash/dfhall (John Ganci)
• ab82906 - add JARPATH and Z390SEQ environment variables (John Ganci)
• d1ac309 - Update/add new copyright info (John Ganci)

Z390 documentation restructure

A major restructure of the online documentation available at https://z390development.github.io/z390
PDF version of the documentation included in the distribution package

• 1d1015a - z390 docs structure (z390development#315) (Anthony Delosa)

Changed

• 3e13457 - First change to include additional help. As yet only for ASM.BAT (Abe Kornelis)
• 2dbcdd5 - Issue374 Improve usability of bat files (z390development#383) (Abe Kornelis)
• 622949c - rename assembler directive APARM in tz390 to ACALLPRM to allow use of APARM macro (dsh33782)
• 41c867d - rename assembler directive APARM to ACALLPRM to allow use of APARM macro (dsh33782)

Deprecated

None this release

Removed

None this release

Fixed

• 0891161 - fix issue 325 to prevent az390 abort due to invalid DC field terminator (dsh33782)
• dfdf87f - Issue 398 - Typo in error message 42 - invalid relatvie offset expression (z390development#407) (Abe Kornelis)
• b1b96ca - Update issue z390development#233 optimizing code, adding TESTSAC1, removing TESTSUB1 (dsh33782)
• cea1061 - Sample program to reproduce/test issue 398 (z390development#401) (Abe Kornelis)
• 646c913 - Add sample program for issue 396 (z390development#397) (Abe Kornelis)
• 1afceaf - Remove leading and trailing spaces from z390 version (John Ganci)
• 524da31 - Remove space in build version in z390.properties (Anthony Delosa)
• 52a4a30 - Fix build error "Not a git repo." actions/checkout#760 (Anthony Delosa)
• 4346be4 - Issue @233 add support for blanks in DC numrtiv nominal values (dsh33782)
• 3861e20 - Add double ampersands tests (z390development#393) (John Ganci)
• 35c2a74 - Issue z390development#215 add regression tests for handling && in SETC vs DC strings (dsh33782)
• 492ba6f - Issue z390development#215 Correct handling of && in SETC strings (dsh33782)
• 350c0aa - correct WTO field length in TBRCTX (dsh33782)
• c7dac3c - Corret TBRCTX change to WTO to remove word after (dsh33782)
• 226b707 - cleanup comments in TBRCTX (dsh33782)
• ecc1200 - Speed up BRCTG test to avoid S422 time limit exception (dsh33782)
• d7a1284 - Issue z390development#180 Issue error on circular reference in options file (z390development#354) (Abe Kornelis)
• 256c597 - Add TESTLITS test (z390development#385) (John Ganci)
• 6081303 - fix LTORG issue 327 to align odd lits to even bound (dsh33782)
• f92613a - update change date and make ACALLPRM caps (dsh33782)
• 20927f3 - fix last mpy 0 result test to set cc non-zero (dsh33782)
• 4089843 - reset cc not zero fpr mpy 0 tests (dsh33782)
• 82da894 - add mpy result 0 tests (dsh33782)
• d838d21 - add mpy espie reset and move cc3 before wto (dsh33782)
• 709683a - add mpy overflow s0c8 overflow test via espie (dsh33782)
• 57b2daf - Issue372 add new program to zCobol test suite (z390development#373) (Abe Kornelis)
• e75dce5 - Fix issue z390development#363 Various bat files are failing to return error code when processing has failed (z390development#364) (Abe Kornelis)
• fc05291 - fix multiply instructions abd tests (dsh33782)
• b44f1b9 - Fix breakpoint info displayed in test mode (z390development#362) (John Ganci)
• b28e8cb - z390development#359 Fix tron handling in bat files (z390development#360) (Abe Kornelis)
• a41a8ee - Issue z390development#357 Ending apostrophe on MNOTE not recognized (z390development#361) (Abe Kornelis)
• cdeb422 - Fix for Issue z390development#195 (=RPI 1622) Issue S0C2 if any of the privileged instructions are used (z390development#351) (Abe Kornelis)