Raincode Legacy Compilers

Version 6.0.136.0

Raincode Crossbow

Raincode Crossbow is a consistent release of the entire Raincode product line, covering compilers, emulators and ancillary tools.

In practice, Raincode Crossbow is designed with three driving forces:

A focus on performance across the board:
- The internal computation engine for non-binary numeric data types (display numeric or packed decimals) has been entirely overhauled, resulting in performance improvements that can go up to a factor of 5 (depending on the level of dependence on these non-binary data types)
- The file I/O layer has been optimized to ensure the best possible performance when dealing with indexed or sequential files
- RadaR is a revolutionary solution to run batch steps 5 to 10 times faster, without changing the application source code or even the JCL they are called from
- The Visual Studio plugin now runs the heaviest debugging operations asynchronously, thereby dramatically improving response time and the overall user experience, even when debugging programs with hundreds of active variables
- The views generated to access VSAMSql and IMSql data using plain SQL DML statements have been optimized dramatically
Updated .NET platform support running both on Linux and on Windows, on virtual machines or in containers, on the cloud, on laptops or servers managed on premise.
Consolidation of the product suite, allowing all Raincode software to be built and upgraded synchronously, thereby avoiding the headaches that come from multiple products that follow different (and sometimes, incompatible) release cycles.

In addition to the above description, Raincode Crossbow v6.0 (see release notes) is a technical release that includes the following:

Support for .NET 10.0 and SQL Server 2025 across the board.
The Visual Studio plugin now supports Visual Studio 2022 and 2026, with improved support for JCL debugging.
Support for the File-AID JCL utility.
Support for TLS encryption on QIX and IMS TN3270 terminal servers.
Removal of support for .NET Framework and .NET 6.0.
Removal of support for Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) for Db2.
Removal of 32-bit support.