VSAM for the COBOL Programmer

By Doug Lowe

Book Overview

If you're a COBOL programmer who is just starting to work on an IBM mainframe, this book shows you how to work with VSAM files. These are mainframe versions of the sequential, indexed, and relative files of standard COBOL. To work with them on a mainframe, though, you need to use extensions to the standards; the IBM codes for error processing; JCL to run the programs that use the files; and Access Method Services (AMS) to set up the files. This book shows you to use them all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911625127
• ISBN13: 9780911625127
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates, Inc.
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Still some of the best tech material out there

This book is even better than the original, which I bought over 10 years ago. Easy to understand and full of IMPORTANT information and lots of lesser-known features which I need, not the trivialities that you dont need. This really is a working programmer's desk guide.

A truly useful primer for the beginning VSAM programmer.

This book has proven its worth many times in a training program administered by my staff. All aspects of VSAM processing have been clearly laid out with excellent examples of each concept being used in a COBOL program. Since COBOL is still the reigning king of business programming, this book still retains a useful place in any mainframe programmer's library and is an excellent primer for the beginning programmer.