This report describes the results of a survey of 1,000 multinational corporations undertaken in 1992 which asked about the importance of environmental issues in investment decisions. The survey shows that most large corporations look systematically at environmental questions when they decide where to invest. Environmental problems appear to have discouraged a number of investments across different industries and the question of liability for past pollution problems at industrial sites was the greatest concern for investors.

Brown and Smith bring your knowledge of VSAM up-to-date. This manual covers all of the many recent changes to VSAM. The detailed, clear explanations provide the background you need to understand VSAM. Lots of examples reinforce the text and provide prototypes to help you understand quickly how to code needed functions.

Here's a comprehensive and useful book on CICS for COBOL programmers at all levels. Kirk focuses on techniques, structures, and style. If your're new to CICS, use this book as a CICS tutorial and then, as you gain mastery of CICS, as a handy desk reference. CICS pros can use it for review and reference, and for guidance in migrating to COBOL II.

Here W.H. Inmon defines the systems development guidelines and principles that ought to govern the client/server environment--what they are, how they are implemented, and what happens if they are ignored--and develops an architecture that applies across all client/server environments.

Lawrence, a former IBM product manager for intermediate systems, combines an insider's knowledge and an outsider's perspective to tell you exactly what the AS/400 is, what it does, and how it does it. This is the best guide available for anyone considering downsizing or distributed computing and for AS/400 users who want to know more about what their AS/400 can do for them.