Murach's Mainframe COBOL - Softcover

Mike Murach; Anne Prince; Raul Menendez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890774243 ISBN 13: 9781890774240

Publisher: Murach (Mike) & Associates Inc (US), 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"If you are programming on the IBM mainframe platform, you should have this book on your desk. It is THE reference for on-the-job-COBOL programmers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Murach (Mike) & Associates Inc (US)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890774243
• ISBN 13: 9781890774240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 687