D715 - Structured COBOL Workshop for Enterprise COBOL: Detail of contents ...
Divisions: ID, Environment, Data, Procedure
Describing data: data structures, level numbers, elementary items and group items
Describing data: PIC, FILLER, working-storage section
Program design / coding strategy; sections and paragraphs
File handling: OPEN, READ, WRITE, CLOSE, REWRITE, FILE STATUS
File handling: locate mode processing versus move mode processing
Structured coding and program design principles; pseudocode; condition tests
Essential verbs and constructs: MOVE, MOVE CORRESPONDING
Essential verbs and constructs: PERFORM, IF / THEN / ELSE, CONTINUE, SET ... TO TRUE
Essential verbs and constructs: ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, COMPUTE, SIZE ERROR, EVALUATE, INITIALIZE, ACCEPT, DISPLAY
Essential verbs and constructs: GO TO; EXIT, STOP RUN, GOBACK
Essential verbs and constructs: scope terminators, USAGE clause, EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode
Essential verbs and constructs: packed-decimal numerics, binary integers, significant digits and precision
Essential verbs and constructs: conceptual data items, reference modification
Intrinsic functions: ACOS, ASIN, ATAN, COS, LOG, LOG10, SIN, TAN, ABS, FACTORIAL, INTEGER, INTEGER-PART
Intrinsic functions: MAX, MEAN, MEDIAN, MIDRANGE, MIN, MOD, ORD-MAX, ORD-MIN, RANDOM, RANGE, REM, NUMVAL, NUMVAL-C
Intrinsic functions: SQRT, SUM, ANNUITY, PRESENT-VALUE, STANDARD-DEVIATION, VARIANCE, COMBINED-DATETIME, CURRENT-DATE
Intrinsic functions: DATE-OF-INTEGER, DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD, DAY-OF-INTEGER, DAY-TO-YYYYDDD, INTEGER-OF-DATE, INTEGER-OF-DAY
Intrinsic functions: WHEN-COMPILED, YEAR-TO-YYYY, BIT-OF, BIT-TO-CHAR, BYTE-LENGTH, CHAR
Intrinsic functions: DISPLAY-OF, LENGTH, LOWER-CASE, NATIONAL-OF, ORD, REVERSE, TRIM, UPPER-CASE
Logic constructs: report files and control break logic, match merge logic
Logic constructs: user defined data classes, COPY, pseudo-text