Cics Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing)

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Summary: One of the best written how-to computer books
Review: I, had to becomes a CICS expert in a couple of days. This book is unbelievably easy to follow. My complememts to Alida M. Jatich. I've learned almost all my computer skills through books. This one ranks up there with Stern and Stern's 'Structured COBOL' and McQuillen & Princes 'MVS Assembler Language

Rating:
Summary: One of the best written how-to computer books
Review: I, had to becomes a CICS expert in a couple of days. This book is unbelievably easy to follow. My complememts to Alida M. Jatich. I've learned almost all my computer skills through books. This one ranks up there with Stern and Stern's 'Structured COBOL' and McQuillen & Princes 'MVS Assembler Language

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Summary: Good Instructional Tech manual
Review: Overall the book delivers what it promises. Being placed in a position where I had to assume responsibility for an existing CICS system with no formal training or other assistance in the applications programming area, I found the book to be a rather clear and concise presentation of CICS applications programming and a definite aid in understanding why the production application was structured the way it was. The book relates to an actual production application and presents the fundamentals quite well. The screen development and interaction between screens and a Cobol processing program are understandable and presented rather well. I did find the index way too short to use as a quick reference. I finally created my own which solved the problem. Unfortunately the figures and examples are too often presented on different pages resulting in paging back and forth. Having them on opposing pages would make the refrencing of examples and text a lot easier. I would also have liked if the examples of code printed would have had the sequence numbers included.