Re: IBM Help

First of all where are you (or more importantly the student) located? There may
be some mainframe sites OR some education opportunites to help with this.

Then for some books (that might help), I think the "Murach" books are as good as
any for "intro" stuff (and for an intern could be used BOTH as a "preview" and
as a refernce later on). See (at Amazon.com - for example)

- Murach's MVS Tso: Concepts and Ispf (MVS TSO)

- Murach's OS/390 and z/OS JCL

Also (depending upon the shop) of interest is:

- Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer

Finally,

- Murach's Structured COBOL

might be useful for the student to see what is (and by inference - is not)
available with IBM Mainframe COBOL - compared to Fujitsu or other workstation
COBOL's.

NOTE WELL:
I do NOT think that the "Murach" books are the BEST books for any of these
individual topics - but as a "group" I think they are probably as good or even
better than any other similar "set of books" for an "introduction today,
reference tomorrow".

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Floyd Johnson" <floydj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Auwce.141$8g.64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have student who has received a very attractive internship offer (i.e. room
>and board, transportation, and a small salary) because of the training I
>provided him in COBOL a year ago. We worked with Fujitsu COBOL in the PC
>environment - both the student version and the professional version.
>
> However, the internship includes work with TSO, IPSF (?), ReXX, etc. There is
> no opportunity on campus to become familiar with these tools. The internship
> site knows this is not part of his background, but he wants to be as prepared
> as possible as he starts his summer activities. Can you suggest any web sites
> that could help him understand how these differ from PC products and prepare
> to use these new environments and utilities.
>
> Thank you for any ideas or leads.
>
> Floyd Johnson
>
>


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