October 18, 1997 @ 02:15 pm·Filed under Books
By Alexis Leon & Gibu Thomas, Comdex Computer Publishing,
1997.
The objective of the book is to familiarize a
person in the IBM Mainframe environment and give a comprehensive
coverage of the most popular IBM products/languages like VS COBOL
II, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, etc. The book covers in detail the IBM
Basics like the MVS environment, storage and data management,
system initialization, job management, managing work, I/O
processing, etc. The book gives a thorough and comprehensive
treatment to topics like JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, etc. An overview to
IMS is also provided. An entire section is devoted to Software
Engineering and Structured Systems Analysis and Design (SSAD),
which covers all the aspects of the Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC) and other topics like Configuration Management,
Software Testing, Technical Documentation, etc.
The book covers VS COBOL II and the various
operations involved in creating and executing a COBOL program in
the Mainframe environment. The compiler, link-editor and run-time
options are discussed and the techniques for improving programmer
productivity are covered. The book assumes that the reader have a
reasonably good knowledge of COBOL 85.
This book is written with an aim to give the
reader an in-depth understanding of the IBM Mainframe, the
mainframe concepts, the popular IBM products/languages, the Y2K
problem and its solutions, without burdening you with the complex
details you will never use or need. This book is unique as it is
designed specifically to assist the experienced as well as the
novices, the designers as well as the developers. In other words,
it a single-point reference book for all mainframe professionals.
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