Murach's Structured COBOL - Softcover

Murach, Mike; Prince, Anne; Menendez, Raul

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9781890774059: Murach's Structured COBOL

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ISBN 10: 1890774057 ISBN 13: 9781890774059

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Inc, 2000

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An introduction and reference to COBOL. Early chapters allow beginners to code, compile, test, and debug simple interactive programs right away. Later chapters give techniques for designing and coding structured programs, cover specifics needed for developing COBOL programs for IBM mainframes, and introduce object-oriented COBOL. All information is presented in paired pages, with details and examples on the right and perspectives on the left. Includes chapter summaries, key terms, and objectives, plus exercises. The CD-ROM contains source code and data for exercises. Author information is not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Please note: Murach’s Structured COBOL, ISBN: 1890774057 has been replaced by Murach’s Mainframe COBOL, ISBN: 1890774243. When Micro Focus dropped Personal COBOL, a PC compiler, we published Murach’s Mainframe COBOL, ISBN: 1890774243, in which all examples of PC COBOL have been dropped...a much cleaner presentation. And to make the new book even better for mainframe training, we added two chapters to the IBM Environment section.

We’re happy to return to straight mainframe COBOL because 95% of COBOL runs on mainframes and that’s where the customer base for training books is. In the business world, mainframe systems are still "alive" and run billions of line of code that must be maintained etc. So Murach’s Mainframe COBOL, freshens our mainframe line and ties in with our best-selling, classic books on OS/390 and z/OS JCL (1890774146), CICS (189077409X), and DB2 (1890774022).

From the Author

When we decided to update our Structured ANS COBOL books, we re-thought our approach from scratch. We wanted our new edition to be a terrific tool for beginners, but we also wanted it to be an indispensable reference for programmers on the job.

The result is Murach’s Structured COBOL, and there isn’t another COBOL book that even comes close to matching the value it delivers. If you’re new to COBOL, you’ll know more at the end of the first 5 chapters than you will from reading other COBOL books cover to cover. If you’re already working in a COBOL shop, you’ll rely on this book every day for information on coding details, statements you don’t know about, better ways of programming, and the realities of working in an IBM mainframe shop.

What’s more, all the information is presented in such a concise, time-saving way, you can find out what you want to know, when you want to know it, no matter how rushed you are. Try it yourself...you’ll find it’s an essential addition to your COBOL library.

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