MVS JCL (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Excellent resource for usage and examples.
Review: An excellent JCL book for beginners and to use as a reference. This is one of the 2 definitive up-to-date JCL books (the other being Gary Deward Browns book). Good explanations of mainframe concepts as well.

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Summary: An excellent beginning JCL book - current for MVS/ESA
Review: An excellent JCL book for beginners and to use as a reference. This is one of the 2 definitive up-to-date JCL books (the other being Gary Deward Browns book). Good explanations of mainframe concepts as well.

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Summary: At what level is this text written?
Review: My favorite JCL books were those by Mani Carsthanassis, `Expert MVS/(ESA and XA) JCL. Unfortunately these were published in 1991 and 1989 and do not contain features introduced since then.

I found that these books fully explained whatever topic I had occasion to need to refer to a book for. They somehow get to the necessary level of detail but are very readable to anyone who already has reasonable knowledge of JCL. They were not written for beginners or students, they were written for people with relevant working experience. Many books spend quite a bit of time on the material which one could readily ask the person sitting at the next workstation, but omit to explain the more complex items.

Can anyone tell me whether this text is more of a college text, and if so is there a current text which is intended for people with significant jcl experience? I invite comments from readers, the author, or other authors; directed to Bernard768 @ Hotmail.com, Thanks.

Rating:
Summary: At what level is this text written?
Review: My favorite JCL books were those by Mani Carsthanassis, 'Expert MVS/(ESA and XA) JCL. Unfortunately these were published in 1991 and 1989 and do not contain features introduced since then.

I found that these books fully explained whatever topic I had occasion to need to refer to a book for. They somehow get to the necessary level of detail but are very readable to anyone who already has reasonable knowledge of JCL. They were not written for beginners or students, they were written for people with relevant working experience. Many books spend quite a bit of time on the material which one could readily ask the person sitting at the next workstation, but omit to explain the more complex items.

Can anyone tell me whether this text is more of a college text, and if so is there a current text which is intended for people with significant jcl experience? I invite comments from readers, the author, or other authors; directed to Bernard768 @ Hotmail.com, Thanks.

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Summary: Excellent resource for usage and examples.
Review: This is one book that I would not want to have to do without. Worth every cent, an excellent resource for sample code, utility programs, and infromation. Doug Lowe has a very good style that makes it easy to learn. One of my best buys!