There are a number of papers available for free from The Trainer's Friend

However, these papers are only viewable and not printable. In The Trainer's Friend On-line Store we have these papers available as printable, plus a few papers not available elsewhere.

The Papers available for purchase here may be printed and distributed for free to anyone in your organization. You are not licenced to re-sell these materials.

A brief description of the available papers follows.

  1. Applications Assembler Programming for z - Discusses the impact of 64-bit architecture, the cache, relative branching, [long] displacement, and extended immediate instructions on applications programming, as well as new linkage conventions, new save area conventions, coding in a reentrant style. 47 pages. (Note: this paper is included free when you purchase a base toolkit.)

  2. Coding AJAX Applications - AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript with XML) is a style of web page management that reduces network bandwidth and processing by updating a page with just the information needed instead of building or transmitting new pages. This paper provides an introduction and three examples to demonstrate how to use these techniques. 60 pages.

  3. Porting Apache 2.2.9 to z/OS 1.9 - Describes the process to accomplish this task. 34 pages.

  4. The Arc of DB2 - Using DB2 to work the World Wide Web - Discusses LOBs, Unicode, and XML as they apply to DB2 V9.1, and how you might use these facilities in conjunction with serving Web pages from your z/OS system. Brief highlights of other features of DB2 V9.1 are also mentioned in passing. This publication also comes with some supporting files: code and data for demonstrations. 100 pages.

  5. z/OS, Language Environment, and UNIX - How They Work Together - ties together many pieces from different components. 157 pages.

  6. The Future of Mainframes is Now - a look at many of the strengths of the mainframe today. 28 pages.

  7. Hosting a Web site on z/OS - One Person's Experience - some tips and techniques that might prove handy. 17 pages.

  8. Introduction to Unicode - a starter reference to Unicode. 62 pages.

  9. Serving Java docs from z/OS - ways to put the Java documentation on your local z/OS server. 20 pages.