The best mainframe books = J. Ranade IBM Series

I've personally always felt pretty much ANY of the "J. Ranade IBM Series" of
books to be the very best mainframe books around on just about any mainframe
subject:

  http://tinyurl.com/2vfwjvm

If you don't like Amazon[*] then just use your favorite book store's search
engine to search for "J. Ranade IBM Series".

A lot of them are hard to find these days, but they're worth the effort to
find them (and the money to buy them) in my opinion.

There are other better books on the subject of mainframe assembler
programming perhaps (see my original post; it looks like Mike Muroch's book
(http://www.murach.com/books/mbal/index.htm) has received several votes),
but for general overall mainframe stuff, you just can't beat the J. Ranade
IBM Series IMO.

-- 
"Fish" (David B. Trout) 
 [email protected]

[*] I'm not trying to promote Amazon.com. It's just a popular/common place
where you can see/buy books, that's all. My wife prefers Half Price Books
and Barnes & Noble.  As for me I'm pretty much neutral on the subject.
Anywhere I can buy a quality book for cheap.