Murach's CICS Desk Reference

This books is an excellent reference to the experienced CICS programmer. It contains the majority of information that an experienced programmer needs to locate quickly to apply to problems at hand. There are not too many technical books like this available on the market that contain the gammut of related reference material all in one place in an easy to locate format. In addition it supplies various "notes and tips" on using each of the CICS features presented as well as code fragments to see them utilized. I found this an invaluable reference worth aquiring. However I would not recommend it for CICS novices. Novices would be better served with Murachs "CICS For The COBOL Programmer" book which provides more in the way of detailed training. This reference while excellent could confuse a CICS novice since there are several CICS concepts that need to be grasped almost all at once to be and effective CICS programmer.

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This is the fourth of Murach's books to find a permanent place on my bookshelf. Most technical books I read once and pass on to the public library. I kept these books because it's so easy to quickly find in them what I need -- and yet they are very complete. Everything is here in one book.Each CICS command is laid out in a set format: function, syntax, options, exceptional conditions, notes & tips and a coding example. Most of them fit on two pages and you have everything you need to use the command in one location.The book covers traditional items, such as BMS maps, VSAM files, and CICS service transactions, such as CEDF and CEMT. It also has a nice section explaining how to code programs that have a web interface, including how to generate and manipulate HTML documents.I was also pleased to see that the occasional places where C programs behave differently from COBOL programs were documented. That's the kind of detail most books on CICS don't bother to mention, which can be very frustrating. But I couldn't find anything that was missing from this book.

The product was fine if only the driver would have placed it at the side porch instead of the front door (as requested) I would feel better about the shipment.

Good book for us old school mainframers. I keep this book with me at all times at work, but Google kind of makes books obsolete anymore.

GOOD FOR ME !

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Als Nachschlagewerk gut geeignet. Als Alternative - wenn das Buch von Norbert Denne mal nicht greifbar ist - sehr gut.