MVS Help
- A resource site for mainframe programmers including manuals and reference guides for COBOL, Assembler, JCL, CICS, TSO, DB2, IMS, IBM Utilities, and ISPF.
- http://www.mvshelp.net/ref01.htm

Turning COBOL Code Into Gold
- Dana Gardner for InfoWorld. Vivek Wadhwa, founder and CEO of Relativity Software, sees gold in the trillions of lines of legacy COBOL code that exist in many older enterprise systems. The gold is not just in the form of profits for his company, but in the
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/99/06/14/990614hnwadhwa.html

PERCobol whips Cobol into shape for budget-minded enterprises
- James R. Borck for InfoWorld. LEGACYJ'S PERCOBOL 2.5 is a low-cost tool that's best suited for companies with small and midsize conversion projects. If you're looking to reinvigorate portions of your Cobol resources without imposing a high price tag, PERC
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/mt/xml/00/08/14/000814mtpercobol.html

Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
- Book by Gary DeWard Brown. A timely, pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource. This classic reference has been updated to address the current realities of life as a COBOL programmer, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-
- http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471314811.html

Application transformation
- James R. Borck for InfoWorld. The push for businesses to compete at Internet speed has only just begun. Unfortunately for many companies, tapping in to the efficiencies of e-business also means unlocking a wealth of business logic and data trapped in the
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/mt/xml/00/08/14/000814mtcobol.html

Integrating 'Big Iron' Business Apps With Your Web Strategy
- Maggie Biggs for InfoWorld. The growth of Web technologies has created many more options for sites that rely on big iron (and COBOL) as part of their e-business strategy. Those who need to enable Web access to big iron business applications without making
- http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/03/13/000313opbiggs.html

COBOL Developer News
- A newsletter for the COBOL development community from Fujitsu Software Corporation. The newsletter covers topical issues such as late-breaking COBOL news, new products, hints and tips, and user success stories.
- http://www.netcobol.com/news/

IBM Redbooks
- The source for finding complete IBM redbooks and redbooks-in-progress (redpieces) on the World Wide Web. You can view and download the complete contents of books online.
- http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/redbooks/

Forever COBOL
- Lauren Gibbons Paul for Datamation. Companies are using a variety of tools and techniques to maintain and modernize their legacy applications.
- http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/611261

COBOL Programmers, Face It: Your Favorite Code Is Outdated and Losing Support
- James R. Borck for InfoWorld. In the nearly five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response.
- http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/713/IW010108opborck/

MIke Murach and Associates
- An online catalog of Mainframe book titles. Subjects include MVS/JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS/TSO.
- http://www.murach.com/books/mainframe.htm

COBOL Book
- Working COBOL-2 programs from simple logic to three level control break and batch file update/match/merge. Validating data, Table handling, SEARCH, Indexing, VSAM KSDS, variable format files. Includes diskette containing all programs, data files and JCL.
- http://www.touniteamerica.com/programming/cobolbook.html

Micro Focus Brings COBOL to the Web
- Michael Vizard and Dana Gardner for InfoWorld. Micro Focus will bring its large installed base of COBOL programmers into the age of the Internet this week with the release of Net Express 3.0, an update to its application development environment that facil
- http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/03/t13-03.14.htm

From Cobol Programmer to E-Commerce Expert
- Lynda Radosevich for InfoWorld. IT professionals can leverage experience in areas such as COBOL programming into a prominent e-commerce position by extracting lessons from mature technologies while embracing young ones.
- http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/mentor/990913mentors.htm

Successful COBOL Upgrades: Highlights and Programming Techniques
- Book by Young Chae and Steven Rogers. Offers a concise primer on how newer versions of COBOL differ from older ones still in circulation, outlines programming techniques for new features, and highlights advantages, obstacles, and surprises programmers may
- http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/33011-6.htm

Standard Object-Oriented Cobol
- Book by Ned Chapin. Covers the new syntax in COBOL-97 and stresses the design that must be done before a COBOL program is written. The text builds on software engineering principles and practices combined with object-oriented technology to enable effectiv
- http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/12974-7.htm

COBOL Portal: COBOL Books
- The one-stop shop for COBOL related news, programming tips, resources and everything COBOL.
- http://www.cobolportal.com/bookstore/

Mastering COBOL
- A book for experienced programmers who want to tackle the challenge of modifying legacy code. Unique in its presentation, Mastering COBOL not only provides an annotated and exemplified language reference, it introduces the reader to the other major compon
- http://www.iecc.com/carol/cobol.html

COBOL Gold Mine
- COBOL is dead, Long Live COBOL! An international site where technical staff and management can discover and learn about the possibilities of the new COBOL/OO COBOL. Free International discussion forum.
- http://ils-international.com/

Cobol for OS/390 Power Programming
- by David Shelby Kirk at MVS Training site.
- http://www.mvs-training.com/

COBOL Programming Books
- Descriptions of various COBOL programming books for purchase.
- http://www.touniteamerica.com/books/bookscob.html

Host-to-Browser Connectivity
- InfoWorld product comparison. With browsers available on every major platform, the time may be right to make your host-based COBOL applications more widely accessible. Which product best lets you do this with the least amount of effort, cost, and disrupti
- http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980112comp.htm

The COBOL Center Bookstore
- Learning resources for COBOL and COBOL programming.
- http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdbks.htm

COBOL Language
- This document provides the X/Open definition of the COBOL Language which is that set of COBOL Language facilities that programmers should follow when using COBOL compilers on conformant systems. The X/Open definition is based on the ISO 1989:1985 Programm
- http://www.opengroup.org/public/pubs/catalog/c192.htm

Year 2000 in a Nutshell
- Book by Norman Shakespeare. Addresses the Year 2000 computer dilemma, providing a compact compendium of solutions and reference information useful for addressing the problem. Includes a comprehensive COBOL quick reference, plus reference for date-related
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/y2knut/