This authoritative guide to JCL has sold over 200,000 copies. The fourth edition has been revised and updated to reflect the recent changes in the language and its emerging applications, including mission-critical coverage of the two most talked about topics in the field, Year 2000 retrofitting of legacy systems and secure e-commerce. Reformatted to match the profiles of today's programmers, this edition places new emphasis on providing guidance for programmers with a PC background. JCL features no longer supported by IBM have been gathered in one chapter on obsolete technology for use by those maintaining legacy systems. The book also features updates for the latest version of OS/390, including changes in architecture, hardware, devices, and terminology.
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This authoritative guide to JCL has sold over 200,000 copies. The fourth edition has been revised and updated to reflect the recent changes in the language and its emerging applications, including mission-critical coverage of the two most talked about topics in the field, Year 2000 retrofitting of legacy systems and secure e-commerce. Reformatted to match the profiles of today's programmers, this edition places new emphasis on providing guidance for programmers with a PC background. JCL features no longer supported by IBM have been gathered in one chapter on obsolete technology for use by those maintaining legacy systems. The book also features updates for the latest version of OS/390, including changes in architecture, hardware, devices, and terminology.
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Revised and updated! The internationally bestselling guide to JCL programming for today's enterprise programmers and developers
This book helps you take advantage of the current market demand for JCL programmers. Whether you are a member of a Y2K retrofit team, an application manager charged with running secure e-commerce servers off of mainframe data, or a programmer assigned to writing interfaces between a mainframe and a client/server network, there is no faster, easier way to master this difficult programming language.
More user-friendly for PC programmers than previous editions, System 390 JCL, Fourth Edition features:
* Many new examples focusing on the concerns of PC programmers
* New sections on programming in multiplatform environments
* Thorough review of changes in the latest versions of JCL and OS/390
* Extensive coverage of JCL in batch programming and production jobs
* A separate chapter on obsolete features that can trip up retrofit teams
* Chapters on Linkage Editor, IBM utilities, Sort/Merge utility, VSAM, TSO/E, ISPF, and REXX
* Helpful chapter-end exercises that you can run on a PC
Combining all the features of a tutorial for programmers new to JCL and a handy, everyday programming reference, System 390 JCL, Fourth Edition is truly the "JCL Programmer's Bible."
This book helps you take advantage of the current market demand for JCL programmers. Whether you are a member of a Y2K retrofit team, an application manager charged with running secure e-commerce servers off of mainframe data, or a programmer assigned to writing interfaces between a mainframe and a client/server network, there is no faster, easier way to master this difficult programming language.
More user-friendly for PC programmers than previous editions, System 390 JCL, Fourth Edition features:
* Many new examples focusing on the concerns of PC programmers
* New sections on programming in multiplatform environments
* Thorough review of changes in the latest versions of JCL and OS/390
* Extensive coverage of JCL in batch programming and production jobs
* A separate chapter on obsolete features that can trip up retrofit teams
* Chapters on Linkage Editor, IBM utilities, Sort/Merge utility, VSAM, TSO/E, ISPF, and REXX
* Helpful chapter-end exercises that you can run on a PC
Combining all the features of a tutorial for programmers new to JCL and a handy, everyday programming reference, System 390 JCL, Fourth Edition is truly the "JCL Programmer's Bible."
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A mainframe book that acknowledges PCs!,
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This review is from: System 390 Job Control Language, 4th Edition (Paperback)
I was hired as a mainframe programmer (trainee) having never laid eyes on a mainframe terminal and having no experience or knowledge of mainframes. Most things have been relatively easy to learn, but JCL has been a thorn in my side from the beginning and has only gotten slightly better in the 7 months I've struggled with it. But this book is absolutely perfect for my needs because it teaches from the perspective of someone moving from a Windows environment to a mainframe environment and even draws comparisons between unfamiliar mainframe terminology and familiar PC terminology. This book is excellent and absolutely necessary if you are new to the mainframe environment and have to understand, troubleshoot, or write JCL.
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The ONLY JCL book worth having.,
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Whether you are a beginner or if you've been programming for years, this is THE book. JCL is a very powerful tool and the information contained in this book is priceless for a programmer. After programming for 15 years, I thought I knew everything there was to know about JCL. This book is an invaluable reference tool that I use atleast 1-3 times a week. It is so popular where I work that others constantly borrow it. The examples contained in the book are very easy to understand. As you programmers know, when you are under the gun, you do not have time to read someone else's cryptic explanations, you want it spelled out and easy to understand. The utility section within this book covers TSO/ISPF and IBM utilities. The only part, small part of the book, that may even be considered week is the TSO/ISPF portion which I do not use. Throughout the book you will see a situation coded. Thereafter you will see "Essential, Rarely Used, Sometimes Used". If you are looking at old JCL you most likely will find your code sitting in "Rarely Used" and you can bring the JCL up to date by applying the "Essential" examples. One example of this is checking return codes after job steps. I've always coded the reverse IBM logic with a cond= statement. This book shows you how to code an IF statement in the jcl and check the exact return code with a simple .eq .gt. .lt boolean operator. Just things like this make the book very valuable to me. I've thrown out my old JCL books because this is the ONLY JCL reference I need.
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The best book available on the subject of JCL,
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This book has the reputation of being the best book available on JCL. That reputation is deserved. JCL is a difficult topic to write about, but Mr. Brown writes clearly and sympathetically. Thanks, Mr. Brown.
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