Advance Praise for A Mainframe Reader by Joseph Gulla Most writing about the mainframe falls into one of two traps: nostalgia or hand-waving. Gulla avoids both. What he has built here is a guided walk through the z/OS stack – architecture, JES, CICS, IMS, Db2, UNIX System Services, networking, integration, security, programming languages, and the… Continue reading Press Release for A Mainframe Reader
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Press Release – The Englishman – John Staddon Memoir for 2026
This reader contains 24 articles on z/Architecture, z/OS, and its many “friends,” including the Base Control Program, networking and management utilities, and major software products like the Customer Information Control System and Information Management System. Hundreds of built-in elements, optional features, and program products are explored and discussed. This book is for… Continue reading Coming in 2026: A Mainframe Computing Reader
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