IBM Announcements : PL/I 3.6

New Announcements by IBM are usually made on Tuesday. So you may be expecting to see some announcements pop up on wednesday when thy prove to be interesting for the mainframe world. Yesterday 24/10/2006 a new release of PL/I was announced PL/I V3R6. It will be available on 27/10/2006.
New in V3.6 are :

• DB2 V9 support
• Performance improvements
• Usability enhancements
• Quality improvements
• Serviceability improvements

One prerequisite to pay attention to : z/OS V1.6 (or later) is required.