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Front Matter
5 chapters2
Part I: z/OS Foundations for the COBOL Architect
6 chapters3
Part II: Advanced DB2 for COBOL
8 chapters- Part II: Advanced DB2 for COBOL
- Chapter 6: DB2 Optimizer Internals
- Chapter 7: Advanced SQL for COBOL: Multi-Row Operations, Temporal Tables, Recursive CTEs, and OLAP Functions
- Chapter 8: DB2 Locking, Concurrency, and Deadlock Resolution: The Chapter That Prevents 2am Pages
- Chapter 9: DB2 Utilities for the COBOL Developer: REORG, RUNSTATS, COPY, RECOVER, and LOAD at Scale
- Chapter 10: Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions in COBOL
- Chapter 11: DB2 Performance Diagnosis: Reading EXPLAIN Output, Interpreting DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE, and Solving Real Problems
- Chapter 12: DB2 Application Patterns: Batch Window Optimization, Cursor Management at Scale, and Dynamic SQL Security
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Part III: CICS Production Mastery
7 chapters- Part III: CICS Production Mastery
- Chapter 13: CICS Architecture for Architects
- Chapter 14: CICS Web Services
- Chapter 15: CICS Channels and Containers — Modern Data Passing for Complex Transactions
- Chapter 16: CICS Security — RACF Integration, Transaction Security, Resource-Level Security, and Audit Compliance
- Chapter 17: CICS Performance and Tuning
- Chapter 18: CICS Failure and Recovery
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Part IV: Messaging and Integration
5 chapters- Part IV: Messaging and Integration
- Chapter 19: IBM MQ for COBOL — Queue Management, Message Patterns, and Transactional Messaging
- Chapter 20: Event-Driven Architecture with COBOL — MQ Triggers, CICS Events, and Pub/Sub Patterns
- Chapter 21: API-First COBOL — Exposing Mainframe Services via z/OS Connect, API Mediation Layer, and OpenAPI
- Chapter 22: Data Integration Patterns: File-Based, Message-Based, and API-Based Exchange with Distributed Systems
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Part V: Batch Architecture at Scale
6 chapters- Part V: Batch Architecture at Scale
- Chapter 23: Batch Window Engineering
- Chapter 24: Checkpoint/Restart Design — Building Batch Programs That Survive Any Failure
- Chapter 25: Parallel Batch Processing — Multi-Step Pipelines, Partitioned Processing, and DB2 Parallelism
- Chapter 26: Batch Performance at Scale
- Chapter 27: Batch Monitoring, Alerting, and Incident Response
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Part VI: Security, Compliance, and Operational Excellence
5 chapters8
Part VII: Modernization Engineering
7 chapters- Part VII: Modernization Engineering
- Index
- Kong API Gateway — Balance Inquiry Strangler Fig Routing
- Index
- Chapter 35: AI-Assisted COBOL — Using LLMs for Code Understanding, Documentation Generation, and Assisted Refactoring
- Chapter 36: DevOps for the Mainframe — Git, Jenkins/Zowe, CI/CD Pipelines, and Automated Testing on z/OS
- Index
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Part VIII: Capstone and Career
4 chapters- Part VIII: Capstone and Career
- Chapter 38: Capstone — Architecting a High-Availability Payment Processing System from Requirements to Production
- Chapter 39 — The Mainframe Architect's Career Path: From Senior Developer to Technical Fellow
- Chapter 40 — Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring: Preserving 50 Years of Institutional Knowledge Before It Retires
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Appendices
11 chapters- Appendix A: Enterprise COBOL Quick Reference
- Appendix B: JCL Quick Reference
- Appendix C: DB2 SQL Reference for COBOL
- Appendix D: z/OS Return and Abend Codes
- Appendix E: Capacity Planning Formulas and Worksheets
- Appendix F: Environment Setup Guide
- Appendix G: Production Readiness Checklists
- Appendix H: Glossary
- Appendix I: Index
- Appendix J: Answers to Selected Exercises
- Appendix K: Bibliography
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