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Power has been restored...Monday, 19 October 2009 19:39  (over 3 years ago)After being off the virtual map for a few days, thanks to some storm damage, Kednos is back and a few things have happened to the Kednos website. First there is a new blog by Tim Sneddon, aptly titled Tim's Blog. The first of many topics, This is the program

A New RSS Feed, Open Source and more...Thursday, 01 October 2009  (over 3 years ago)The pages for MMK and MX have been moved into the new Open Source section. Although this is only just being set up, these products are being migrated to a Mercurial repository to further community envolvement. A new section called Code Management has also been

NetRexx, SIG Tapes and a Few Extra Changes...Tuesday, 25 August 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)A new Articles section has been set up under Documentation. This is now the home for all articles submitted to the OpenVMS Technical Journal (and possibly others). There are also some new additions to the Project Euler page. There is now a new page for documenting

PL/I Support for Eclipse IDEMonday, 15 June 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)The Editors sections has been updated to included the newly released Eclipse IDE support for PL/I. Thanks go to William Fenalson for this.

Project EulerFriday, 12 June 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)There have been a few changes to the website. There is a new section detailing PL/I based solutions to the mathematical problems found at Project Euler. The Documentation page has been reworked to be a bit neater and more helpful.

WSIT and J2VMS: A Comparative AnalysisWednesday, 03 June 2009  (nearly 4 years ago)The next issue of the OpenVMS Technical Journal is just around the corner. Tim Sneddon has written an article comparing HP's Web Services Toolkit and Kednos' Java-to-VMS Toolkit. An advanced copy of this article is available here.

Robot Find Kitten For PL/IMonday, 02 February 2009  (4 years ago)Some more small changes. The Contact page has been updated (even includes a Google map too). The Resources page now includes details of some PL/I and OpenVMS support forums as well as a Games setion for those looking to waste some time. The Sales & Support

OpenVMS Technical Journal ArticleWednesday, 28 January 2009  (4 years ago)The latest issue of the OpenVMS Technical Journal, V12, has been published by HP. It contains an article by Tim Sneddon called Calling OpenVMS native routines from Java. It covers the Phone Book example of using the language integration tools to call native

Java Integration Toolkit ReleaseFriday, 23 January 2009  (over 4 years ago)Kednos is proud to announce the release of the Integration toolkit. Currently focusing on Java, this toolkit provides a collection of tools for making it easier to interface Java and native OpenVMS routines and data structures. The official release announcement

Translated Support for Alpha PL/I ImagesWednesday, 14 January 2009  (over 4 years ago)The production release of the Native IPF PL/I Run-Time Library for Translated Images has been announced. This announcement can be read here. Follow this link to go download kits and view the release notes. In other PL/I related news, Ebhard Sturm has just had

New tools, an RSS feed and much more...Friday, 19 December 2008  (over 4 years ago)Much has changed on the Kednos website since the last update. The largest change is the new Integration section which covers utilities and libraries for making integration between different languages easier. Most of these tools are also useful to non-PL/I developers

A New Home for MX and MMKTuesday, 14 October 2008  (over 4 years ago)The company MadGoat Software has come to an end and Matt Madison (the owner) has released the Mail Exchange (MX) product as open source. Kednos has set up a new home for MX (and soon MMK, the MadGoat Make utility) here. The MX mailing list has also been revived

Another Correction to PLI$STARLET.TLBTuesday, 08 July 2008  (nearly 5 years ago)It has been brought to our attention that the definition of the TPU$INITIALIZE routine is incorrect. An updated copy of the definition can be found here. Once you have downloaded the file, the text library PLI$STARLET.TLB can be updated using a command similar

Field Test Release of Translated SupportMonday, 23 June 2008  (nearly 5 years ago)Kednos has made a field test release of it's PL/I Run-Time Library to support executing translated OpenVMS Alpha PL/I images on OpenVMS I64. Click here to see the announcement. Click here to read the release notes and download a kit.

New Website for KednosWednesday, 27 June 2007  (5 years ago)Kednos has a new site. Bear with us while we iron out any wrinkles

No Itanium GEM for KednosWednesday, 18 April 2007  (6 years ago)PL/I on Itanium. OpenVMS Engineering has decided for unintelligible reasons to not provide Kednos with an update GEM compiler backend which supports Itanium. The one we currently use supports only Alpha. But there is hope. If you compile and link on Alpha you

Correction to PLI$STARLET.TLBThursday, 15 March 2007  (6 years ago)Unfortunately when creating the current compiler kit the starlet library ended up with a faulty version of PLI_FILE_DISPLAY.PLI. You may obtain a correct copy at ftp://ftp.kednos.com/pub/axp/updates/pli_file_display.pli, and you should replace the one you have

New PL/I Kit for OpenVMS AlphaThursday, 18 January 2007  (6 years ago)A new kit is available which resolves a number of outstanding issues for the Alpha compiler. Please refer to the release notes for more information.