Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer

Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer
Author: Raul Menendez
Publisher: Murach: Training & Reference
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774097

Join the more than 150,000 programmers who have learned CICS using CICS books alone. Now, the two-part CICS for the COBOL Programmer has been revised into a single volume that meets today's need for fast-paced training. Readers get all the commands and features that are current today--plus, new chapters on creating web or component-based programs--in just 630, information-packed pages.

Murach's CICS Desk Reference

Murach's CICS Desk Reference
Author: Raul Menendez
Publisher: Programmer's Reference
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774172

This new edition of Murach's classic CICS Programmer's Desk Reference is updated throughout to present both the latest versions of CICS and the latest CICS programming practices. An easy-to-use CICS command reference makes up the bulk of the book, but there is also new or expanded material on CICS program design.

Murach's Mainframe COBOL

Murach's Mainframe COBOL
Author: Mike Murach
Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774240

This is the latest edition of our classic COBOL book that has set the standard for structured design and coding since the mid-1970s. So if you want to learn how to write COBOL programs the way they're written in the best enterprise COBOL shops, this is the book for you. And when you're done learning from this book, it becomes the best reference you'll ever find for use on the job. Throughout the book, you will learn how to use COBOL on IBM mainframes because that's where 90% or more of all COBOL is running. But to work on a mainframe, you need to know more than just the COBOL language. That's why this book also shows you: how to use the ISPF editor for entering programs; how to use TSO/E and JCL to compile and test programs; how to use the AMS utility to work with VSAM files; how to use CICS for developing interactive COBOL programs; how to use DB2 for developing COBOL programs that handle database data; how to maintain legacy programs. If you want to learn COBOL for other platforms, this book will get you off to a good start because COBOL is a standard language. In fact, all of the COBOL that's presented in this book will also run on any other platform that has a COBOL compiler. Remember, though, that billions of lines of mainframe COBOL are currently in use, and those programs will keep programmers busy for many years to come.

DB2 for the COBOL Programmer

DB2 for the COBOL Programmer
Author: Curtis Garvin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774028

If you are looking for a practical DB2 book that focuses on application programming, this is the book for you. Written from the programmer's point of view, it will quickly teach you what you need to know to access and process DB2 data in your COBOL programs using embedded SQL. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to make it even more valuable to the programmer who is slugging it out on the job. You will learn: the critical DB2 concepts that let you understand how DB2 works; the basic DB2 coding features you will use in every program you write; how to use version 4 enhancements like outer joins and explicit syntax for inner joins; how to work with column functions, scalar functions, and subqueries to manipulate data; how to use error handling techniques and ROLLBACK to protect DB2 data; why program efficiency is vital under DB2... and more.

Concepts and ISPF

Concepts and ISPF
Author: Doug Lowe
Publisher: MVS TSO
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1991
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780911625561

Now you can quickly master ISPF with this practical book. Chapter 1introduces you to MVS (both MVS/XA and MVS/ESA) and shows you how TSO/ISPF relates to the operating system. Then, the remaining 7 chapters teach you how to use ISPF for everyday programming tasks.

IMS for the COBOL Programmer: Data communications and message format service

IMS for the COBOL Programmer: Data communications and message format service
Author: Steve Eckols
Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1985
Genre: COBOL (Computer program language)
ISBN:

The second part of IMS for the COBOL Programmer is for MVS programmers only. It teaches you how to handle online programs that access IMS databases and run under the data communications (DC) component of IMS. This book also covers Message Format Service (MFS). MFS acts as an interface between the format of messages at a terminal and the I/O formats in your programs. So you'll learn how to use MFS to create formatted screens that are easy for operators to use. And you'll learn what tasks you can handle through MFS instead of having to code for them in your DC programs.

Beginning COBOL for Programmers

Beginning COBOL for Programmers
Author: Michael Coughlan
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430262540

Beginning COBOL for Programmers is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programmers. This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to—or must—add COBOL to your repertoire. Perhaps you recognize the opportunities presented by the current COBOL skills crisis, or are working in a mission critical enterprise which retains legacy COBOL applications. Whatever your situation, Beginning COBOL for Programmers meets your needs as an established programmer moving to COBOL. Beginning COBOL for Programmers includes comprehensive coverage of ANS 85 COBOL features and techniques, including control structures, condition names, sequential and direct access files, data redefinition, string handling, decimal arithmetic, subprograms, and the report writer. The final chapter includes a substantial introduction to object-oriented COBOL. Benefiting from over one hundred example programs, you’ll receive an extensive introduction to the core and advanced features of the COBOL language and will learn to apply these through comprehensive and varied exercises. If you've inherited some legacy COBOL, you’ll be able to grasp the COBOL idioms, understand the constructs, and recognize what's happening in the code you’re working with. Today’s enterprise application developers will find that COBOL skills open new—or old—doors, and this extensive COBOL reference is the book to help you acquire and develop your COBOL skills.

What On Earth is a Mainframe?

What On Earth is a Mainframe?
Author: David Stephens
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1409225356

Confused about zSeries Mainframes? Need to understand the z/OS operating system - and in a hurry? Then you've just found the book you need.Avoiding technical jargon, this book gives you the basic facts in clear, light-hearted, entertaining English. You'll quickly learn what Mainframes are, what they do, what runs on them, and terms and terminology you need to speak Mainframe-ese.But it's not all technical. There's also invaluable information on the people that work on Mainframes, Mainframe management issues, new Mainframe trends, and other facts that don't seem to be written down anywhere else.Programmers, managers, recruitment consultants, and industry commentators will all find this book their new best friend when trying to understand the Mainframe world.

MVS Assembler Language

MVS Assembler Language
Author: Kevin McQuillen
Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780911625349

As one customer put it, Everything in these books has changed except the assembler language. So if you need to learn mainframe assembler language for either the MVS or VSE operating system, these books are still as useful as any other books we've seen.