Book DescriptionThis book shows you how to learn COBOL on your own. It also includes coverage of Micro Focus Personal COBOL, a PC-based compiler for trainees who didn't have access to a mainframe and who wanted to learn on their own PCs.
However, Micro Focus has dropped Personal COBOL from its line, so Murach has published Murach’s Mainframe COBOL, ISBN: 1890774243, in which all examples of PC COBOL have been dropped...a much cleaner presentation.
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Rating: - Murach's Structured COBOL
I've just browsed this book, which was delivered just 5 minutes ago, but I was very disapointed. Most examples are still in the old fashion COBOL way from the 70's and are not taking advantage of "Mixed Case", "Scope Terminators"(not even mentioned in the index), which makes a COBOL program structured. Use of the "full stop (.)" should be forbidden, where it's not needed, and that's only at the end of a paragraph. Using "MOVE 'Y' TO EOF_SWITCH" instead of "Set EOF to True" even more disqualifies ... Read More
Rating: - The Guru of Mainframe Transaction Based Programming
I have been reading Mike Murach books for decades now, and keep several on my desk. The CICS Desk Reference, for example, written by Doug Lowe, is still THE definitive reference for CICS programming. As one who has been around COBOL programming since the early 70's when Grace Hopper introduced it, I think this is one best books on the subject ever written.
Rating: - How to code, compile, test, and debug interactive programs
Murach's Structured COBOL is a complete course in the use of COBOL in a single 780-page volume. Mike Murach, Anne Prince, and Raul Menendez collaborate to cover all aspects from getting started and special-purpose features to file handling and the use of COBOL for specific platforms. Readers will learn how to code, compile, test, and debug interactive programs; the best techniques for designing and coding structured programs; the specifics necessary for developing programs for IBM mainframes; fourteen ... Read More
Rating: - If you write COBOL programs (or want to), you need this book
Structured COBOL is a brand new addition to the excellent catalog of mainframe computer programming books published by Mike Murach and Associates. If you are programming on the IBM mainframe platform, or intend to be, this is a title you should have on your desk. Although beginning programmers are included in the target audience, the real value of this material will be as a reference for on-the-job programmers.
At more than 760 pages, it covers everything you would need to research. Information ... Read More
- Murach's Structured COBOL
- The Guru of Mainframe Transaction Based Programming
