Date: Mon, 1993 Oct 18 13:51 EDT From: "John F. Chandler" Subject: Announcing IBM Mainframe MVS/TSO Kermit-370 Version 4.3 Keywords: IBM 370 Kermit, MVS/TSO Kermit, TSO Kermit Xref: IBM Mainframe, Also see IBM 370 Xref: MVS/TSO Kermit, Also see MVS/TSO Kermit, IBM 370 This is to announce Release 4.3 of Kermit-370 for TSO. The sources have not been completely rewritten, but numerous fixes, extensions, and improvements have been inserted. The changes in 4.3 include all updates formerly available in IKTKER.UPD plus many new ones. Parts of the source have been resequenced: IKTMAC.ASM, IK0DEF.ASM, IK0CMD.ASM, IK0KAN.ASM, IKTUTL.ASM, and IK0PRO.ASM, and any local mods affecting these parts will need to be changed accordingly. As with previous releases, all TSO-specific files begin with IKT, and generic Kermit-370 files begin with IK0 (I K Zero). See the file IKTKER.INS for installation instructions. Most of the distribution files have been replaced, including IKTKER.INS, plus the assembler sources and the "beware", help, and update files. Release 4.3 is also being issued in the companion CMS, MUSIC, and CICS variants (see the separate announcements for details). As usual, the ROSCOE variant is obtained as a small change from the TSO variant. Anyone interested in helping to port Kermit-370 to still other operating systems should contact John Chandler or . For a list of generic additions, see the generic Kermit-370 announcement IK0KER.ANN. The following is a list of TSO-specific updates added since Release 4.2, including many that were already available in intermediate releases. 1) When downloading ISPF PDS members, Kermit-TSO now uses the ISPF modification date as the time stamp (if attributes are enabled). 2) The format of KER.LOG for SET DEBUG I/O has been extended to give hexadecimal buffer dumps like those of CMS Kermit. 3) Correct UNIT selection for new datasets uploaded to TSO. This fixes a bug introduced with version 4.1. 4) Multiple subcommands allowed on the initial invocation command line, provided the Kermit delimiter is defined in one of the initialization files. 5) Current status code available to CLIST's as &LASTCC. 6) Now comes with a file of sample auxilliary CLIST's for use with Kermit (IKTAUX.CMD). These include KERMAIL, KERMPRT, and PC. 7) Now recovers cleanly if the user specifies an erroneous CWD string. 8) Now supports relative generation numbers for GDG's for both sending and receiving files. Many thanks to the beta testers who have helped work out the bugs in the new release.