To paraphrase Dune: “Know a programmer by his books, his beetled brow, and the thick glasses that shield his blazing eyes...”

Here are some of the books we take with us on-site. We list them here in hopes that our third copies won’t wander away from our desks like the earlier ones did.

Legacy
Structured COBOL
CICS for the COBOL Programmer
The CICS Programmer’s Desk Reference
DB2 for the COBOL Programmer part 1 and 2
IMS for the COBOL Programmer part 1 and 2
MVS Assembler Language Revision
And everything else Murach

Client-Server
SAP R/3 Implementation: Methods and Tools
ABAP/4: Programming the SAP R/3 System
Oracle E-Business Suite n i: Implementing Core Financial Applications
Oracle n: the Complete Reference
Visual Basic n

Management
Anything by Gerald M. Weinberg and anything Dilbert!