REVIEW OF COBOL CONCEPTS

• What is COBOL Programming
• How Does it Fit in the Environment
• Basic Terms and Language Structure
• Programming Fundamentals
• COBOL Ground Rules
• JCL Concepts

ADVANCED COBOL LOGIC

• Compound IF Statement
• IF Logic Guidelines
• The NOT Statement
• Condition Names 88 Levels
• The SET Statement for Condition Names
• Testing for Blank Numeric Fields
• COBOL 85 Changes

CONTROL BREAK LOGIC

• Concepts
• One-Level Control Breaks
• Two-Level Control Breaks
• Three-Level Control Breaks
• Page Overflow
• Error Testing

TABLE PROCESSING

• Sequential Tables
• The SEARCH Statement
• The PERFORM VARYING Statement
• Variable Length Tables
• The SEARCH ALL Statement
• Multi-dimensional Tables

COBOL SORT AND MERGE

• Basic SORT Requirements
• The SELECT and SD Statements
• The SORT Statement
• USING and GIVING Options
• Basic MERGE Requirements
• Sorting Table Entries
• Other Sort Logic

VSAM FILE CONCEPTS

• File Structures
• KSDS Files
• ESDS Files
• RRDS Files
• Alternate Indexes

VSAM PROCESSING STATEMENTS

• The INPUT-OUTPUT Section
• The FILE Section
• The OPEN and CLOSE Statements
• The READ Statement
• The WRITE Statement

PROGRAMMING VSAM FILES

• File Status
• Random Processing
• Sequential Processing
• Relative Record Processing

MULTI-PROGRAMMING

• Program Linkage
• Entry Points
• Passing Data Between Programs
• Nested Programs
• The CALL Statement

DEBUGGING COBOL PROGRAMS

• Concepts
• Types of Errors
• Debugging Mode
• The STATE Option
• Storage Dumps

SUMMARY

• COBOL Future
• Structures Programming in COBOL
• COBOL 85 and the Future