Structured COBOL Workshop for Enterprise COBOL

PT24680
Training Summary
Students who complete this course will be able to write or maintain COBOL programs that do not require advanced capabilities of the language. The emphasis here is learning the basics of the language, along with developing program design skills using pseudocode.
Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with TSO/ISPF (or equivalent), working knowledge of submitting jobs with JCL and examining the output, as well as introduction to data processing concepts are required for this course (see course PT2013). Knowledge of another programming language is helpful but not required.
Duration
5 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is designed for application programmers and systems analysts who are or will be using the COBOL 85 standard from COBOL for MVS thru Enterprise COBOL.
Course Topics
  • Fundamentals
  • Describing Data
  • Processing Data
  • /O Processing Options
  • More on Data Items
  • PERFORM Statements
  • Program Design
  • Conditional Statements
  • Describing Numeric Data
  • Data Alignment
  • Arithmetic Instructions
  • EVALUATE
  • Basic String Manipulation
  • Introduction to Intrinsic Functions
  • Working with Print Files
  • Control Breaks
  • Match Merge Logic
  • Miscellaneous Topics

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