Re: The best mainframe books = J. Ranade IBM Series

"Fish" (David B. Trout) wrote:
> 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.
> 
or you can try O'Reilly (http://www.safaribooksonline.com), which has 
lots of z/OS / MVS books.  sadly, a cursory search didn't turn up any 
370/390 assembler books, but a more thorough search might...  plenty of 
x86 assembler stuff, tho...

yvette hirth