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AS/400 Primer : Fundamental Concepts and Training for Programmers, Administrators, and System Operators

Ernie Malaga, Doug Pence, Ron Hawkins

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I literally owe my career to this book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I literally owe my career to this book. If there were only one AS/400 sys admin book you could own, this would be the one! Two years ago I was thrown into the fires of AS/400 System administration. This book was the water I needed to put out those fires and become a proactive system administrator. It sits on the corner of my desk and I still reference it all the time. The "Primer" explains the situation in simple enough terms that a beginner will become excited about setting up and working with the AS/400. Then it will take you to the next level so that you can become a proactive administrator rather than a reactive one. I have recommend the "Primer" to friends that are seasoned administrators and they reference it all the time too. I just can't say enough about this book.

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Ideal for AS/400 programmers, system administrators, and operators, this newly revised edition explains core AS/400 concepts and shows how to perform 30 essential functions, including installation, troubleshooting, administration, and programming. Topics cover RPG IV programming, new system values, ILE concepts, important new system security information, and running the AS/400 as an Internet server.

UNIX for the Mainframer: The Essential Reference for Commands, Conversions, TCP/IP

David B. Horvath

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Extremely helpful training manual/cross reference 5 out of 5 stars.
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Designed to enable professional mainframers to apply existing knowledge and skillsets in the UNIX environment. Not for beginners with no knowledge base in either environment. Gives many helpful comparisons, for example:

Mainframe = SDSF da/i/o/etc.. Closest Unix Equiv = lpstat/ps/who/vmstat/iostat

Mainframe = partitioned data set (PDS) Closest Unix Equiv = subdirectory

I believe would benefit both midrange and mainframers working in a multi-platform environment. If nothing else it helps bridge the language barrier between the two groups and takes some of the mystique out of the 'other side'.

excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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Describes Unix using the mainframe as equivalents. Very interesting and helpful.

Quantum Computing without Magic: Devices (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

Zdzislaw Meglicki

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This text offers an introduction to quantum computing, with a special emphasis on basic quantum physics, experiment, and quantum devices. Unlike many other texts, which tend to emphasize algorithms, Quantum Computing without Magic explains the requisite quantum physics in some depth, and then explains the devices themselves. It is a book for readers who, having already encountered quantum algorithms, may ask, "Yes, I can see how the algebra does the trick, but how can we actually do it?" By explaining the details in the context of the topics covered, this book strips the subject of the "magic" with which it is so often cloaked.

Quantum Computing without Magic covers the essential probability calculus; the qubit, its physics, manipulation and measurement, and how it can be implemented using superconducting electronics; quaternions and density operator formalism; unitary formalism and its application to Berry phase manipulation; the biqubit, the mysteries of entanglement, nonlocality, separability, biqubit classification, and the Schroedinger's Cat paradox; the controlled-NOT gate, its applications and implementations; and classical analogs of quantum devices and quantum processes.

Quantum Computing without Magic can be used as a complementary text for physics and electronic engineering undergraduates studying quantum computing and basic quantum mechanics, or as an introduction and guide for electronic engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, or scholars in these fields who are interested in quantum computing and how it might fit into their research programs.

SQL/400 Developer's Guide

Mike Cravitz

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SQL for the 400/iSeries Cool! 5 out of 5 stars.
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SQL the standard for data access is now presented in a AS400/iSeries user format. The differences that exist for the DB2/400 user are minor but significant enough to warrant 500 pages plus.

Conte and Cravitz flood the text with real working examples that hit homeruns with the IBM midrange user. Yet, minus the sprinkling of RPG/ILE & Cobol code any DB2 user would find the text extremely helpful.

Keep this book at the ready since it's a "quick grab" when questions come up regarding triggers, UDF's or Database Modeling and design.

The Book is a great starting point for the AS400/iSeries guru looking to open their database to the outside world. With a solid SQL footing the JDBC mountain is a much easier climb.

Conte & Cravitz keep up the great work!

Editorial Review:

Paul Conte and Mike Cravitz have written the must-have guide to SQL for AS/400 application developers. SQL/400 Developer's Guide is an authoritative book that will help you create and manipulate comprehensive, complex, professional-quality SQL/400 databases. The textbook covers database and SQL fundamentals, SQL/400 Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML), and database modeling and design. Coding suggestions reinforce the topics covered and provide practical advice on how to produce robust, well-functioning code.

IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (History of Computing)

Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer

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No new product offering has had greater impact on the computer industry than the IBM System/360. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/370. The authors tell how System/360's widely-copied architecture came into being and how IBM failed in an effort to replace it ten years later with a bold development effort called FS, the Future System. Along the way they detail the development of many computer innovations still in use, among them semiconductor memories, the cache, floppy disks, and Winchester disk files. They conclude by looking at issues involved in managing research and development and striving for product leadership.

While numerous anecdotal and fragmentary accounts of System/360 and System/370 development exist, this is the first comprehensive account, a result of research into IBM records, published reports, and interviews with over a hundred participants. Covering the period from about 1960 to 1975, it highlights such important topics as the gamble on hybrid circuits, conception and achievement of a unified product line, memory and storage developments, software support, unique problems at the high end of the line, monolithic integrated circuit developments, and the trend toward terminal-oriented systems.

System/360 was developed during the transition from discrete transistors to integrated circuits at the crucial time when the major source of IBM's revenue was changed from punched-card equipment to electronic computer systems. As the authors point out, the key to the system's success was compatibility among its many models. So important was this to customers that System/370 and its successors have remained compatible with System/360. Many companies in fact chose to develop and market their own 360-370 compatible systems. System/360 also spawned an entire industry dedicated to making plug-compatible products for attachment to it.

The authors, all affiliated with IBM Research, are coauthors of IBM's Early Computers, a critically acclaimed technical history covering the period before 1960.

Cics Command Level Programming (Wiley Professional Computing)

Alida M. Jatich

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One of the best written how-to computer books 5 out of 5 stars.
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I, had to becomes a CICS expert in a couple of days. This book is unbelievably easy to follow. My complememts to Alida M. Jatich. I've learned almost all my computer skills through books. This one ranks up there with Stern and Stern's 'Structured COBOL' and McQuillen & Princes 'MVS Assembler Language

Good Instructional Tech manual 4 out of 5 stars.
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Overall the book delivers what it promises. Being placed in a position where I had to assume responsibility for an existing CICS system with no formal training or other assistance in the applications programming area, I found the book to be a rather clear and concise presentation of CICS applications programming and a definite aid in understanding why the production application was structured the way it was. The book relates to an actual production application and presents the fundamentals quite well. The screen development and interaction between screens and a Cobol processing program are understandable and presented rather well. I did find the index way too short to use as a quick reference. I finally created my own which solved the problem. Unfortunately the figures and examples are too often presented on different pages resulting in paging back and forth. Having them on opposing pages would make the refrencing of examples and text a lot easier. I would also have liked if the examples of code printed would have had the sequence numbers included.

Editorial Review:

This Second Edition includes all relevant information regarding IBM's latest major update releases of CICS. Using a step-by-step tutorial, it shows how to develop and maintain CICS code for maximum system effectiveness. Coverage includes all commands, support functions, and VS COBOL II; detailed information on using the first microcomputer (OS/2) version of CICS; and table setup and system utilities for applications programmers developing software on personal computers. By providing a wealth of real-world examples, teaches readers a practical, streamlined approach to problem solving using the latest CICS coding techniques.

Control Language Programming for the AS/400 (2nd Edition)

Bryan Meyers, Dan Riehl

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Excellent text for your AS/400 CLP library! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Being new to the AS/400, I ordered this book to learn about AS/400 CLP. This is an excellent, one or two semester college-level course on AS/400 Control Language Programming. Get off by yourself and go through this book chapter by chapter, doing the exercises, and by the time you are finished, you will feel confident about your ability to do CL programming! Excellent reference book also!

Great tool to teach yourself CL 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was definitely an effective tool in helping me learn and implement CL into my development techniques. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn CL or just wants a good reference book on hand

Editorial Review:

This comprehensive textbook on CL programming for the AS/400 is a boon to programming career professionals, teachers and students. Bryan Meyers and Dan Riehl, NEWS/400 technical editors with 20 years' experience in CL programming between them, write from an up-to-the-minute knowledge of the skills required in today's MIS environment. Each chapter includes practical exercises and programming assignments graduated in difficulty.

Quantum Computing Explained

David McMahon

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A self-contained treatment of the fundamentals of quantum computing

This clear, practical book takes quantum computing out of the realm of theoretical physics and teaches the fundamentals of the field to students and professionals who have not had training in quantum computing or quantum information theory, including computer scientists, programmers, electrical engineers, mathematicians, physics students, and chemists. The author cuts through the conventions of typical jargon-laden physics books and instead presents the material through his unique "how-to" approach and friendly, conversational style.

Readers will learn how to carry out calculations with explicit details and will gain a fundamental grasp of:
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Quantum mechanics
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Quantum computation
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Teleportation
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Quantum cryptography
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Entanglement
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Quantum algorithms
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Error correction

A number of worked examples are included so readers can see how quantum computing is done with their own eyes, while answers to similar end-of-chapter problems are provided for readers to check their own work as they learn to master the information.

Ideal for professionals and graduate-level students alike, Quantum Computing Explained delivers the fundamentals of quantum computing readers need to be able to understand current research papers and go on to study more advanced quantum texts.

The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation

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"The editors however have done an excellent job of stitching together a rewarding tapestry of the field as it stands today...The Physics of Quantum Information is essential reading for anyone new to the field, particularly if they enter from the direction of quantum optics and atomic physics." -The Physicist

"Unreservedly recommended, and deserving of a place in any Physics library." -Andrew Davies, Department of Defence, Canberra, Australia

Leading experts from "The Physics of Quantum Information" network, an initiative of the European Commission, bring together the most recent results of the emerging area of quantum technology. Written in a consistent style as a research monograph, the book introduces into quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation, and quantum computation, considering both theory and newest experiments. Thus scientists working in the field and advanced students will find a rich source of information on this exciting new area.

FROM THE REVIEWS:

AMERICAN SCIENTIST "Topics are well balanced between presentations of the theory (dazzling in its ingenuity) and crude attempts at its implementation (tours de force of technology, but still a long way from any nontrivial computational application)...does convey a thorough and authoritative picture of the state of this fascinating futuristic art as we enter the 21st century."

QUANTUM INFORMATION & COMPUTATION "...an excellent job of stitching together a rewarding tapestry of the field as it stands today...essential reading for anyone new to the field, particularly if they enter from the direction of quantum optics and atomic physics."

System 390 Job Control Language, 4th Edition

Gary Deward Brown

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Because software and not hardware is now the dominant cost in computing, users of mainframes will not trade them in for computers with modern design features incompatible with their software. This underlies the demand for the Job Control Language (JCL) program which provides the means of communication between an application, the operating system, and the hardware. In this fourth edition, JCL features that are no longer supported by IBM or are known to cause problems in distributed environments are separated out in a chapter on "obsolete technology" in legacy systems. Further updates for this edition include: changes in architecture, hardware, devices, and terminology; the addition of more tutorial aimed at readers coming from a PC background instead of a mainframe background; an explanation of JCL's role in batch programming and production jobs; new sections on programming in multi-platform systems and on operating system facilities; and examples that reflect concerns like Y2K and security.