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Structured COBOL Workshop for Enterprise COBOL - Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

  1. Code and test programs using "IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390" compiler to process sequential files
  2. Describe fields, records, and files to COBOL
  3. Correctly use the most common COBOL verbs in their various forms
  4. Use the following techniques in designing or coding COBOL programs:
  5. Code COBOL code using installation standards, with an awareness of the ANSI standard
  6. Define numeric data items to COBOL that are packed decimal or binary integer in format
  7. Use the COBOL arithmetic verbs ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, and COMPUTE
  8. Code and test COBOL programs to create reports, including page break processing and control breaks
  9. Code and test COBOL programs to perform batch transaction processing using match-merge logic (sequential processing of transaction and master files), including update in place for sequential disk files
  10. Use the following techniques in designing or coding COBOL programs:
  11. Code COBOL programs that read from and write to HFS files on systems using z/OS UNIX.

 

These Materials © Copyright 2012 by Steven H. Comstock

Materials version: V3.x

 

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