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The animal on the cover of Designing and Programming CICS Applications is a gyr falcon. The gyr falcon has been characterized as a “heavily built bird.” Hailing from Northern Canada, it inhabits the open tundra areas, but can be seen as far south as the United States/Canadian border. The gyr falcon’s plumage varies from white to gray, depending on its region. This bird of prey’s diet consists mainly of small rodents and other birds.

The black gyr falcon is popular in Europe, and over generations has been crossed with the peregrine hawk to produce the gyr/peregrine. The male, which is smaller than the female, is known as an excellent game hawk, while the female is noted for her precise hunting abilities.

Maureen Dempsey was the production editor and copyeditor for Designing and Programming CICS Applications. Norma Emory was the proofreader. Sarah Jane Shangraw and Madeleine Newell provided quality control. Brenda Miller wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.

Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Maureen Dempsey.

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