Join the more than 150,000 programmers who have learned CICS using CICS books alone. Now, the two-part CICS for the COBOL Programmer has been revised into a single volume that meets today's need for fast-paced training. Readers get all the commands and features that are current today--plus, new chapters on creating web or component-based programs--in just 630, information-packed pages.

This new edition of Murach's classic 'CICS Programmer's Desk Reference' is updated throughout to present both the latest versions of CICS and the latest CICS programming practices. An easy-to-use CICS command reference makes up the bulk of the book. But there is also new or expanded material on CICS program design, creating HTML documents from BMS mapsets for web-based CICS applications, defining CICS resources, and more.

The basic features of ISPF haven't changed since this book was published in 1990 (although the interface looks somewhat different than what's shown in the examples). So you can still use it to help you master ISPF skills like how to: edit and browse a data set; how use the ISPF utilities to manage data sets and libraries; how to compile, link, and execute programs interactively; how to debug COBOL programs interactively; and how to process batch jobs in a background region.