Gary DeWard Brown

This was definitely my bible back in 1987. The distinctive blue cover always brings me back to the "good ole days". Although my copy's cover was quite dogeared, I was able to resurrect it using some judicial GIMP work.

I'm sure this is out of print, but I used this in 1978 when I was a programmer for the IBM 360 on campus. (Oops, I just dated myself.) JCL was the true test of a real programmer since it was entirely unintelligable to the uninitiated and looked like it was designed by a bunch of IBM programmers. Oh, that's right, it was designed by a bunch of IBM programmers.

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