Book details of 'Unix for MVS Programmers'

Title	Unix for MVS Programmers
Author(s)	Harry S. Singh
ISBN	0134429893
Language	English
Published	January 1997
Publisher	Prentice Hall

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Dealing with IBM mainframers is a bit like dealing with Mac fanatics. "What's the file called?" "`File'?" "Yeah, you know, file. Collection of bits or bytes, has a filename, usually either contains information or instruction for the computer." "Oh, you mean the *data set*!" [SFX grinding teeth.] Computers are computers the world over, but IBM has a jargon all its own, and proceeds in supreme confidence that IBM is right, and that the rest of the world cannot communicate. Therefore, MVS programmers *do* have all the conceptual knowledge they need to run a real operating system, such as UNIX, but they need to be taught the right words. A book that does this would be a great help. Singh hasn't produced such a book. What we have here, is a fairly standard introduction to UNIX that occasionally mentions MVS programs and terms. The UNIX is generally mentioned, described, and explained first, with an added afterthought about the related MVS command. There are tables of equivalent commands which would have been very helpful if said tables had not been structured so that you had to know the UNIX command in order to find the corresponding MVS command. MVS people *could* use this book to learn UNIX, but it definitely doesn't use their existing conceptual knowledge. Anyone knowing MVS would find the UNIX man pages equally helpful. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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