INTRODUCTION TO COBOL CONCEPTS
- What is COBOL Programming
- How Does it Fit in the Environment
- Basic Terms and Language Structure
- Programming Fundamentals
COBOL: THE GROUND RULES
- LanguagXeas and Predefined Columns
- Identification Division
- Environment Division
- Data Division
- Procedure Division
- COBOL Organization
- JCL Rules
CREATING THE FIRST WORKING PROGRAM
- Compiling the First COBOL Program
- Simple Input/Output
- Defining Records
- Moving Data
- Debugging
PARAGRAPHS AND STRUCTURED PROGRAMS
- Organizing Subroutines
- The PERFORM Statement
- The PERFORM UNTIL Statement
- Repetitive Processing
- Paragraphs vs. Sections
- COBOL 85 Concepts
DEFINING AND MOVING DATA
- Working-Storage Concepts
- Level Numbers
- Groups and Elementary Items
- USAGE Clause
- PICTURE Clause
- Alphanumeric Data
- Numeric Data
- The MOVE Statement
SEQUENTIAL FILE OPERATIONS
- The INPUT-OUTPUT Section
- The FILE Section
- The OPEN and CLOSE Statements
- The READ Statement
- The WRITE Statement
- Programming Sequential Files
COBOL ARITHMETIC
- Overview of Concepts
- COMPUTATIONAL Usage
- Arithmetic Operations
- The COMPUTE Statement
- SIZE Errors and ROUNDING
EDITING NUMERIC DATA
- Edited Data Format
- Implied Decimal Points
- Zero Suppression
- Floating Dollar Signs
COBOL LOGIC
- The IF Statement
- The ELSE Option
- Nested IF’s
- The NOT Operator
- Compound IF’s
- COBOL 85 Concepts
TABLE PROCESSING
- Array Concepts
- Defining Tables
- The OCCURS Clause
- The PERFORM VARYING Statement
- Table Searching
- Index Concepts
- The SEARCH Statement
SUMMARY
- COBOL Future
- Structured Programming in COBOL
- COBOL 85 and the Future
Formation COBOL sur Microfocus Cobol
Introduction to COBOL
The structure of COBOL programs
Declaring data in COBOL
Basic Procedure Division commands
Getting Started
COBOL Control structures
Selection in COBOL
Iteration in COBOL
The Calculator and Countdown exercise
Simple Sequential Files
Introduction to Sequential files
Processing Sequential files
Reading Sequential Files
Counting records in a Sequential File
Advanced data declaration
Edited Pictures
The USAGE clause
Writing records to a Sequential File
Inserting records in a Sequential File
Advanced Sequential Files
COBOL print files and variable-length records
Sorting and Merging
Basic Procedure Division commands
Updating a Sequential File
Sorting a Sequential File
Direct access files
Introduction to direct access files
Relative Files
Indexed Files
COBOL tables
Using tables
Creating tables – syntax and semantics
Searching tables
Using Tables
Constructing large systems
Contained and external sub-programs
The COPY verb
COBOL string handling
Inspect
String
Unstring
Reference modification and Intrinsic Functions
The COBOL Report Writer
Report Writer by example
Report Writer syntax and semantics
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