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These documents are in Adobe Acrobat format ("pdf files").  Each presentation is no more than 15 pages, with the last page being our contact page.

The publications themselves are free and may be freely distributed, printed, and taught from, as long as you provide proper attribution of the source.

Please feel free to send corrections and suggestions for topics.

Depending on your browser, clicking on a title may open the document in Adobe Acrobat reader immediately, or you may be prompted if you want to save the file. If you have the document opened in Acrobat for you, there will be an icon of a diskette and if you click on that icon you can then save the file. If things still don't work the way you want, try right-clicking on the link. Finally, if you can't seem to download the file, e-mail me and I will send it to you as an attachment.

See also our collection of free technical papers, which are generally longer, more in-depth pieces.

 

Publication Title

Date last updated
Modern Mainframes - Hardware 2009/03/28
Modern Mainframes - Operating System 2009/03/28
Modern Mainframes - Programming Languages 2009/03/28
Upgrade Your Programming Staff 2009/08/04
   

Enterprise COBOL - for beginners

 
Enterprise COBOL - A Living Language 2010/06/11
COBOL Coding Overview - Format and Structure 2010/06/11
The IDENTIFICATION DIVISION 2010/06/11
The ENVIRONMENT DIVISION 2009/08/05
The DATA DIVISION 2009/08/04
Data Types 2010/06/14
Data Items 2010/06/14
The Picture Clause and Data Editing 2010/06/14
Introduction to Files 2009/11/05
Reference Modification 2009/08/04
   
   

Enterprise COBOL - changes for experienced coders

 
COBOL Changes - Big Picture 2010/06/11
COBOL Changes - Details_1 2009/11/04
COBOL Changes - Format 2009/11/04
COBOL Changes - The ID Division 2009/11/04
COBOL Changes - The Environment Division 2009/08/05
COBOL Changes - The Data Division 2009/08/04
COBOL Changes - COBOL Data Types 2010/06/14
COBOL Changes - Reference Modification 2009/08/04
   

Miscellaneous

 
Assembler Changes - Big Picture 2009/08/01
   
Introduction to Internationalization 2009/03/28
Character Encoding 2009/03/28

 

In addition, here are some links regarding the IBM mainframe that have been recommended by members of the IBM-Main listserv / usenet group that you might find interesting:

The Dinosaur Myth

The IBM Scholars Program

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