D704 Enterprise COBOL Update

Enterprise COBOL Update - Topical Outline

Day One

The Legacy of VS COBOL II

COBOL II Recap

Mixed-case and un-named filler

Packed-decimal and binary data declarations

Tables: dimensions, sizes, and initialization

Reference modification and hex notation

Pointers and addresses

Nested programs

CALL ... BY CONTENT ... ON EXCEPTION enhancements

PERFORM ... WITH TEST AFTER

Scope terminators

In-line PERFORM

SET ... TO TRUE

CONTINUE

INITIALIZE

EVALUATE

Some Compiler Parm changes

Changes in OPEN behavior

Computer Exercise: Using the New COBOL Structures

COBOL Evolves

COBOL/370 (Version 1, Release 1)

New reserved words

Compiler option changes

Run-time JCL changes

Language Environment Run-Time Parameters of interest

COBOL Intrinsic functions

Concepts and Syntax

Date and Time Related Functions

String Related Functions

Arithmetic, Business, and Mathematical Functions

The ALL Intrinsic Function

Computer Exercise: Using Intrinsic Functions

Introduction to Language Environment

What Is Language Environment?

LE Services

Benefits of Using LE

Using LE Services

Day Two

A Deeper look at LE

LE Program management model

Survey of LE services

Code fragments: condition handling and storage management

Computer exercise (optional): Using a Condition Handler

A Quick look at an LE dump (CEEDUMP)

COBOL for MVS & VM (Version 1, Release 2) Changes

General Changes

Apostrophes and Quotes

Null-terminated non-numeric literals

Long names, mixed case names

Enhanced currency support

Local-storage

Recursive programs

RETURNING on procedure division header and call

Pass arguments BY VALUE

Procedure-pointer extensions

New Reserved Words

New / Changed Compiler Options

New / Changed Run-time Options

INTDATE COBOL Compiler Installation Option

Introduction of Object Oriented COBOL

Computer Exercise: Using more of the new features

COBOL for OS/390 & VM (Version 2, Release 1) Changes

DLL Support

New ACCEPT options

New intrinsic functions: DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD, DAY-TO-YYYYDDD, YEAR-TO-YYYY

New compiler option

Computer Exercise: New Intrinsic functions

COBOL for OS/390 & VM (Version 2, Release 2) Changes

ADDRESS OF available for WORKING-STORAGE

New usage: comp-5

31-digit numbers

Line sequential files

New / changed compiler options

Dynamic file allocation

z/OS and OS/390 UNIX support

Computer Exercise: Dynamic File Allocation From COBOL Program

Enterprise COBOL changes

Enterprise COBOL V3R1

Enterprise COBOL V3R2

Enterprise COBOL V3R3

Enterprise COBOL V3R4

Enterprise COBOL V4R1

Enterprise COBOL V4R2

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V3R1

New reserved words

Compiler option changes

DB2 coprocessor (from earlier compiler)

CICS integrated translator

Multithreading support

Function-pointers

ADDRESS OF in CALL

Other features discussed elsewhere

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V3R2

New / changed reserved words, compiler options

New functionality: overview

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V3R3

New / changed reserved words, compiler options

New functionality: overview

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V3R4

New / changed reserved words, compiler options

New functionality:

Larger table limits

Unicode support stage 2

REDEFINES extension

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V4R1

Compiler option changes

New reserved words

Enhanced XML support

Enterprise COBOL Compiler: V4R2

Compiler option changes

New functionality

Underscore in user-defined names

XML PARSE with validation

Appendix: MLE - Millennium Language Extensions (Optional)

MLE Concepts

MLE compiler options

MLE intrinsic functions: DATEVAL, UNDATE, YEARWINDOW

Using MLE

D704 / 2 Days

Materials version: V7.x

Course description
Course Objectives
COBOL curriculum
Home page