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Advanced COBOL

Course:   CBA
Duration:   4 Days
Level:   II
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Course Summary

This course is designed to help students to improve their knowledge of COBOL tools, by training them in advanced language features and programming techniques.

Topics Covered In This Course

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
  • Simple EVALUATE
  • Multiple EVALUATE

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 OVERVIEW

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
  • 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 6 and the Future
What You Can Expect
Who Should Take This Course

Application programmers

Recommended Prerequisites

The participants should have some experience in COBOL tools.

Training Style

This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops.

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Every student attending a Verhoef Training class will receive a certificate good for $100 toward their next public class taken within a year.

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