Course Description

Enterprise COBOL Update I:
Essentials

This course: course objectives; course outline;
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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to use the major facilities of the latest COBOL compiler from IBM, in any of its releases (COBOL/370, COBOL for MVS & VM,  COBOL for OS/390 & VM, or Enterprise COBOL for z/OS), creating code that is more efficient and interfaces better with programs written in other languages, with z/OS UNIX, and with newer applications features.

Audience

COBOL programmers who need to quickly get up to date with modern COBOL, including using intrinsic functios, what's available as Language Environment services (including dynamic storage management and an introduction to condition handling) and dynamic file allocation techniques.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong programming background in COBOL.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these and other IBM manuals; access to these publications in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SA22-7561 - LE Programming Guide
SC27-1408 - COBOL Language Reference
SC27-1412 - COBOL Programming Guide

• COBOL II Changes recap
• COBOL/370 (Version 1 Release 1)
• Intrinsic functions
• Introduction to Language Environment
• LE Program management model
• Condition handling
• LE Dump formats
• COBOL for MVS & VM (Version 1 Release 2)
• COBOL for OS/390 & VM (Version 2 Release 1)
• New intrinsic functions and new formats of ACCEPT
• ADDRESS OF available for Working-storage
• COMP-5 data
• Line sequential files
• SQL coprocessor
• z/OS and OS/390 UNIX support
• Dynamic File Allocation
• Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (V3R1, V3R2, V3R3, V3R4, V4R1)
• Millennium Language Extensions (MLE)

Exercises

There are five standard and one optional hands-on exercises.

Special Notes

Students who have more of a need to focus on the actual conversion process should probably attend course D-200, Converting to COBOL for OS/390 & VM.

More detailed information and hands on labs for Unicode, XML, and Java interoperability are available in other courses from The Trainer's Friend.