COBOL and Mainframe Books

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Note: Many COBOL books are older - published 1980 through 2009. They are included in this collection for completeness. Recent COBOL Books are listed at the beginning.

• COBOL : Sumanta Soren - IBM COBOL 2019 Kindle Edition
• Beginning COBOL for Programmers : Michael Coughlan 2014
• COBOL For the 21st Century : Nancy Stern and more 2013
• Murach's Structured Cobol : Mike Murach, Anne Prince, Raul Menendez - This is one of the best ways to get started and to learn COBOL.

• Teach Yourself Cobol in 21 Days 2nd Edition by Mo Budlong - Learn step by step in 1000+ pages - 1997
  Includes softcover book, does NOT include CD-ROM
• The Essentials of Cobol I : R. Cezzar - 32 page summary - 1989
• Fundamentals of Structured Cobol : Robert C. Nickerson - 1991
• Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Programming With Modern Structured Cobol : Larry Newcomer, Lawrence R. Newcomer - 1994
• Structured Cobol : First Course : M. B. Khan - 1996

• Advanced ANSI Cobol With Structured Programming : For Vs Cobol II and Microsoft Micro Focus Cobol : Gary Deward Brown - 1992
• Advanced Structured Cobol : M. B. Khan, Marle P. Martin - 1994
• Comprehensive Structured Cobol by Lister Wayne Horn, Gary M. Gleason - includes RM Cobol
• Comprehensive Structured COBOL by Gary S. Popkin - highly recommended in the Cobol FAQ
• Cobol by Design : Gary Klein, Malu Cabrera - 1994
• Cobol Programs for Libraries : William J. Kurmey - 1990
• Comprehensive Cobol : Andrew S. Philippakis, Leonard J. Kazmier - 1991
• Handbook of Cobol Techniques and Programming Standards : 1988
• Methodical Programming in Cobol-85 : Ray Welland, Jim Haigh - 1994
• Professional Programming in Cobol : Bruce M. Johnson, Marcia Ruwe - 1990

• DB2 for the Cobol Programmer : Part 1 : An Introductory Course Steve Eckols - 1999
• DB2 for the Cobol Programmer : Part 2 : An Advanced Course Curtis Garvin, Anne Prince - 1999
• Embedded Sql for DB2 : Application Design and Programming : Jonathan S. Sayles - 1990
• IMS for the Cobol Programmer/Part 1 : Data Base Processing With IMS/VS and Dl/I Dos/VSE Vol 1 Steve Eckols (1980s - out of print?)
• IMS for the Cobol Programmer/Part 2 : Data Communications and MFS Steve Eckols (1980s - out of print?)
• IMS Programming Techniques : A Guide to Using Dl/I Dan Kapp and Joseph Leben - 1973 (hard to find)
• IMS Administration, Programming, and Data Base Design Joseph Geller - 1989 (hard to find)

• Murach's Structured Cobol : Mike Murach, Anne Prince, Raul Menendez - 2000
• Structured Cobol Programming - 8th Edition : Nancy and Bob Stern
  This is the book will show you how to write Cobol programs the professional structured way. I learned Cobol from a Stern book back in the early 1970s. Their books just keep getting better. To learn more about the book and the Sterns Click here. Training materials including Overheads are available from the publisher.
• Structured Cobol : First Course : M. B. Khan - 1996
• Structured Cobol : Fundamentals and Style Tyler Welburn, Wilson Price - 1995
• Structured Cobol Methods : How to Design, Code, and Test Your Programs So They're Easier to Debug, Document, and Maintain : Paul Noll - 1997
• Structured Cobol Programming : Nancy B. Stern, Robert A. Stern - 1997
• A Simplified Guide to Structured Cobol Programming Daniel D. McCracken - 1988
• Simplified Structured Cobol With Microsoft/Microfocus Cobol : Daniel D. McCracken, Donald G. Golden - 1990
• Structured Cobol Programming/the Wiley Cobol Syntax Reference Guide Nancy Stern, Robert A. Stern - 1994
• Structured Cobol/Pseudocode
• Structured Cobol Programming : Interactive and Batch Processing : Bernard L. Levite - 1995

• Murach's OS/390 and z/OS JCL : Raoul Menendez and Doug Lowe - 2002
• MVS TSO Part 1 (Concepts and ISPF) : Doug Lowe
• MVS TSO Part 2 (Commands, CLIST and REXX : Doug Lowe (Collector - over $800)
• MVS Assembler Language : Kevin McQuillen and Anne Prince
• VSAM for the COBOL Programmer : Doug Lowe
• MVS JCL and Utilities : A Comprehensive Treatment : Michael Trombetta, Sue Carolyn Finkelstein (Contributor) - 1989
• System 390 Job Control Language, 4th Edition : Gary Deward Brown
• OS/390 Power Programming with Complete Year 2000 Section : David Shelby Kirk - 1998
  Recommended for mainframe programmers who want to upgrade their knowledge to the lastest Cobol****
• MVS Cobol Application Developer's Toolbox (J. Ranade IBM Series) : Alex Varsegi - 1993
• An Invitation to MVS Using Cobol : Edward A. Kelly - 1989
• Cobol Application Debugging Under MVS : Cobol and Cobol II : Alan Friend - 1992
• Micro Focus Workbench : Developing Mainframe Cobol Applications on the PC : Alida Jatich, Phil Nowak - 1992
• As/400 Application Development Using Cobol/400 (J. Ranade IBM Series) Gerald S. Kaplan, Gerry Kaplan - 1996
• Programming in Cobol/400 : James Cooper, et al - 1997
• Rexx : Tools and Techniques (Qed IBM Mainframe) : Barry K. Nirmal - 1993

• Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer : Raul Menendez and Doug Lowe - Improved in 2001
• CICS : A How-To for Cobol Programmers : David Shelby Kirk - 1993
• CICS Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing) : Alida M. Jatich - 1991
• Micro Focus CICS Option : Developing CICS Applications on the PC : Clayton L., Jr. McNally - 1993
• The CICS Companion : A Reference Guide to Cobol Command Level Programming (Mainframe Software Series) : Thomas Robert Gildersleeve - 1988
• Micro Focus CICS Option : 1993
• On-Line Systems Design and Implementation (Using Ans Cobol and Command Level Cics) : Charles J. Kacmar - 1984

• Micro Focus Cobol Workbench for the Application Developer : Clayton L., Jr. McNally, Peter, Jr. Molchan - 1993
• Micro Focus Workbench and Toolset Developer's Guide : Rob K. Lamb, Ron K. Lamb - 1995
• The Cobol Presentation Manager Programming Guide : For OS2 : David Dill - 1992
• Micro Focus Cobol Workbench for the Application Developer : 1993
• Using Micro Focus Cobol Workbench/Book and Disk : Leona Roen - 1995

• An Introduction to Object COBOL : Doke & Hardgrave (John Wiley) - 1998
• Elements of Object-Oriented COBOL (2nd Edition) : Wilson Price
• Object-Oriented Cobol (Advances in Object Technology Series, 12) : Edmund C. Arranga, Frank P. Coyle - 1996
• Reengineering Cobol With Objects : Step by Step to Sustainable Legacy Systems : Robert Levey - 1996
• Standard Object-Oriented Cobol : Ned Chapin - 1996