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

Ron, I have to concur with those who are suggesting books. The questions you are asking really beg for a step by step walk through of the basics of program linkage, including the reasons for it, followed by the conventions of OS assembler language and I/O.

Follow this link for Kevin McQuillen's System/360-370 assembler language (OS) at a very reasonable price ($3.64 postpaid.) You can't beat that. Remember that to work with MVS 3.8 and Hercules you do not need the very latest z/OS texts that cost $50 apiece or more, but only something from the era in which MVS was the state of the art. The concepts will still be good today, but an old book is cheaper.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=mcquillen&kn=murach&sts=t&tn=assembler&x=0&y=0


--- In [email protected], "Dave Wade" <g4ugm@...> wrote:
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   On 05/28/2010 12:04 PM, Ron Hudson wrote: 
> 
> 
>     Thanks eveyone for all the book reccomendations.. I will have to see if I can find any of these in my local library,
> 
>     I can't justify spending the 30-50 bucks for one of these books when this is currently just a hobby and I am currently
>     not working. I would love to have a 'mainframe' job (well perhaps not tape-ape or printer monkey) and then be able
>     to justify this sort of cost. 
> 
>     Right now I am working on a BS-Information systems security at ITT-Technical Institute. If you know anyone
>     with a mainframe in Sacramento CA that is hiring, I have a resume for them.
> 
>     I occasionally find some web resources.. many assume a greater knowlege of the system than I have.
> 
>     I am currently looking for
>     - more on the OS - Program linkage
>     - File and Printer I/O in assembly language
> 
>     Ron.
>