D705 Enterprise COBOL Unicode and XML Support

Course Code: D-705
Recommended Duration: 2 Days

Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to use the Unicode and XML processing capabilities of the IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 compiler. This enables students to build routines to convert Web-originated XML transactions to classic COBOL data structure based transactions and back.

Audience

Experienced z/OS or OS/390 COBOL application programmers. Students should already be familiar with the LE COBOL compiler family and its capabilities. The course "Enterprise COBOL Update" or equivalent knowledge is assumed.

Prerequisites

At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong programming background in COBOL. The installation must be using the Enterprise COBOL compiler and have Unicode support services activated.

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:

SC27-1408 - COBOL Language Reference
SC27-1412 - COBOL Programming Guide

Major Topics Include

Introduction to Unicode
National data type
Intrinsic functions: DISPLAY-OF, NATIONAL-OF
Introduction to XML
The XML PARSE statement
The XML Special registers
XML Events
Coding processing procedures
Extracting character string fields while parsing
Extracting numeric fields while parsing
Handling exceptions while parsing
The XML GENERATE statement
Handling attributes and namespaces
The Enterprise COBOL V4R1 enhancements to XML work
XML PARSE with validation

Exercises

There are ten hands-on exercises.

Course Description

Enterprise COBOL Unicode and XML Support