Unix for the Mainframer: The Essential Reference for Commands, Conversions, and Tcp/Ip

by David B. Horvath

If you know mainframes, this book will help you extend your expertise to UNIX environments. This book is a quick, complete reference guide - and a powerful tutorial - for any mainframe professional who wants to understand UNIX and TCP/IP. It provides an overview comparing and contrasting mainframe and UNIX environments from the standpoint of the mainframe professional. It introduces mainframers to UNIX data and file handling methods; shows how UNIX provides for the commands and utilities mainframe programmers are familiar with; and discusses UNIX alternatives to mainframe JCL. It covers advanced UNIX shell scripts; UNIX editors; UNIX account configuration; and third-party tools that may make mainframe developers more comfortable in the UNIX environment. The book includes detailed lists of error messages, codes, UNIX signals, hints and techniques; conversion tables for ASCII and EBCDIC; an overview of the UNIX C Shell and TCP/IP, and much more. All mainframe programmers, analysts, system analysts and consultants who need to learn UNIX. This including the rapidly increasing number of programmers in IBM environments working with mainframes as network hubs, or with IBM RS/6000 workstations.

392 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 1997

About the author

David B. Horvath, CCP is a senior consultant in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. He has been in the field for more than 15 years and is also a part-time adjunct professor at local and distance-learning universities teaching such topics as C++, Unix/Linux and Database Techniques. He received his masters of organizational dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He has provided seminars and workshops to professional societies and corporations on an international basis. David is the author of UNIX for the Mainframer (Prentice-Hall/PTR), coauthor of Sams Teach Yourself C++ for Linux in 21 Days (with Jesse Liberty), contributing author to Unix Unleashed (several editions including cover credit), Red Hat Linux Unleashed (many editions), Learn Shell Programming in 24 Hours, Linux Unleashed Fourth Edition, Linux Programming Unleashed Second Edition and has written numerous magazine articles. He is also an active volunteer in the community and professional societies.