| 1. | Year 2000 in a Nutshell | | | Book by Norman Shakespeare. Addresses the Year 2000 computer dilemma, providing a compact compendium of solutions and reference information useful for addressing the problem. Includes a comprehensive COBOL quick reference, plus reference for date-related functions.
www.oreilly.com |
| 2. | COBOL Language | | | This document provides the X/Open definition of the COBOL Language which is that set of COBOL Language facilities that programmers should follow when using COBOL compilers on conformant systems. The X/Open definition is based on the ISO 1989:1985 Programming Languages - COBOL standard but contains none of the optional modules of standard COBOL.
www.opengroup.org |
| 4. | Host-to-Browser Connectivity | | | InfoWorld product comparison. With browsers available on every major platform, the time may be right to make your host-based COBOL applications more widely accessible. Which product best lets you do this with the least amount of effort, cost, and disruption for users?
www.infoworld.com |
| 5. | MVS Help | | | A resource site for mainframe programmers including manuals and reference guides for COBOL, Assembler, JCL, CICS, TSO, DB2, IMS, IBM Utilities, and ISPF.
www.mvshelp.com |
| 8. | COBOL Gold Mine | | | COBOL is dead, Long Live COBOL! An international site where technical staff and management can discover and learn about the possibilities of the new COBOL/OO COBOL. Free International discussion forum.
ils-international.com |
| 9. | Mastering COBOL | | | A book for experienced programmers who want to tackle the challenge of modifying legacy code. Unique in its presentation, Mastering COBOL not only provides an annotated and exemplified language reference, it introduces the reader to the other major components typically found in legacy environments including JCL, CICS, IMS and SQL.
www.iecc.com |
| 10. | COBOL Portal: COBOL Books | | | The one-stop shop for COBOL related news, programming tips, resources and everything COBOL.
www.cobolportal.com |
| 11. | Standard Object-Oriented Cobol | | | Book by Ned Chapin. Covers the new syntax in COBOL-97 and stresses the design that must be done before a COBOL program is written. The text builds on software engineering principles and practices combined with object-oriented technology to enable effective use of this latest form of COBOL.
www.wiley.com |
| 12. | Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming | | | Book by Gary DeWard Brown. A timely, pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource. This classic reference has been updated to address the current realities of life as a COBOL programmer, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-on tutorial on implementing object-oriented COBOL.
www.wiley.com |
| 13. | Successful COBOL Upgrades: Highlights and Programming Techniques | | | Book by Young Chae and Steven Rogers. Offers a concise primer on how newer versions of COBOL differ from older ones still in circulation, outlines programming techniques for new features, and highlights advantages, obstacles, and surprises programmers may find along the way.
www.wiley.com |
| 14. | From Cobol Programmer to E-Commerce Expert | | | Lynda Radosevich for InfoWorld. IT professionals can leverage experience in areas such as COBOL programming into a prominent e-commerce position by extracting lessons from mature technologies while embracing young ones.
www.infoworld.com |
| 15. | Micro Focus Brings COBOL to the Web | | | Michael Vizard and Dana Gardner for InfoWorld. Micro Focus will bring its large installed base of COBOL programmers into the age of the Internet this week with the release of Net Express 3.0, an update to its application development environment that facilitates linking COBOL applications to the Web.
www.infoworld.com |
| 16. | COBOL Developer News | | | A newsletter for the COBOL development community from Fujitsu Software Corporation. The newsletter covers topical issues such as late-breaking COBOL news, new products, hints and tips, and user success stories.
www.adtools.com |
| 17. | COBOL Book | | | Working COBOL-2 programs from simple logic to three level control break and batch file update/match/merge. Validating data, Table handling, SEARCH, Indexing, VSAM KSDS, variable format files. Includes diskette containing all programs, data files and JCL.
www.touniteamerica.com |
| 18. | MIke Murach and Associates | | | An online catalog of Mainframe book titles. Subjects include MVS/JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS/TSO.
www.murach.com |
| 20. | Forever COBOL | | | Lauren Gibbons Paul for Datamation. Companies are using a variety of tools and techniques to maintain and modernize their legacy applications.
itmanagement.earthweb.com |
| 21. | IBM Redbooks | | | The source for finding complete IBM redbooks and redbooks-in-progress (redpieces) on the World Wide Web. You can view and download the complete contents of books online.
publib-b.boulder.ibm.com |
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