Course Description

Structured COBOL Workshop
for Enterprise COBOL

This course: course objectives; course outline
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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to write or maintain COBOL programs that do not require advanced capabilities of the language. The emphasis here is learning the basics of the language, along with developing program design skills using pseudocode. 

Audience

Experienced programmers needing to learn COBOL as a second language. Entry level programmers learning COBOL as their first programming language.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have background in using a text editor for keying in programs, and know how to run jobs and examine the output. Some introduction to data processing concepts is also recommended.

Related IBM Materials

In addition to the student handouts, students should have access to the appropriate technical manuals.

• The COBOL language
• ANSI standards
• EBCDIC / ASCII / Unicode Coding Schemes
• Data descriptions
• Sequential files
• Major COBOL verbs
• Pseudocode and program design
• Working with print files
• Intrinsic functions
• Using File Status
• The COPY statement
• Advanced currency capabilities
• Line Sequential files

Exercises

There are 17 hands-on exercises.

Platforms Supported

The exercises can run on any version of z/OS and OS/390.

Although the course is designed with the IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 compiler in mind, the content applies to IBM COBOL for OS/390 & VM with the exception of Unicode support.