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Course Cobol Programming

In the course Cobol Programming participants learn to develop applications in the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL). Cobol emerged from the Conference on Data Systems Language (CODASYL) in 1959, when more and more companies in the Western World needed to automate business processes. Cobol is still widely used in banks and insurance companies, but has undergone many changes since its early days. Since the COBOL 2002 standard, Cobol also supports object-oriented programming.

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  • Course Cobol Programming : Content

    Cobol Intro

    The course starts with an overview of Cobol's typical features and program structure. The Cobol Metalanguage, Divisions, Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences and Statements are discussed.

    Data Declarations and Procedure Divisions

    Subsequently the use of Data Declarations and Procedure Divisions is treated. Attention is paid to literals, constants, variables, structured data and assignment. And also input and output and various verbs are discussed such as ACCEPT, DISPLAY, COMPUTE, ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY and DIVIDE.

    Control Flow

    Furthermore control flow constructions in Cobol with selections and iterations are part of the course program. This includes condition types, truth tables, decision tables, the EVALUATE Metalanguage and also PERFORM..THRU, PERFORM..TIMES and PERFORM..VARYING.

    Subroutines

    After a discussion of subroutines in Cobol, it is the turn of a treatment of reading and writing sequential files.

    Records

    Attention is paid to Records, Fields, Record Buffers, Variable-Length Records and the operations SELECT, ASSIGN, OPEN, CLOSE, READ and WRITE.

    Arrays and Strings

    Finally the use of tabular data, arrays and strings in Cobol is explained and the course ends with the treatment of object oriented programming in Cobol with modules and classes.

  • Course Cobol Programming : Training

    Audience course Cobol Programming

    The course Cobol Programming is intended for anyone who wants to learn programming in the Cobol programming language.

    Prerequisites Course Cobol Programming

    To participate in this course basic knowledge of programming in another programming language is beneficial to understanding but is not required.

    Realization Training Cobol Programming

    The theory is discussed on the basis of presentation slides. The theory is further explained through demos. After discussing a module, there is the possibility to practice. Course times are from 9.30 to 16.30.

    Certification Course Cobol Programming

    After successful completion of the course the participants receive an official certificate Cobol Programming.

    Course Cobol Programming
  • Course Cobol Programming : Modules

    Module 1 : Cobol Intro

    Module 2 : Data Declaration

    Module 3 : Procedure Division

    Cobol Origins
    Versions of Cobol
    Cobol Idiosyncrasies
    Noise Words
    Cobol Metalanguage
    Program Structure
    Divisions and Sections
    Paragraphs and Sentences
    Statements
    Coding Rules
    Micro Focus Cobol
    Installing Cobol
    Alphanumeric Literals
    Numeric Literals
    Figurative Constants
    Data Items or Variables
    Type Enforcement
    Alphabetic Data
    Declaring Data
    PICTURE Clause
    Assignments
    MOVE Verb
    Structured Data
    Data Hierarchy
    Input and Output
    ACCEPT Verb
    DISPLAY Verb
    System Variables
    Common Arithmetic
    ROUNDED Phrase
    ON SIZE ERROR
    COMPUTE Verb
    ADD Verb
    SUBTRACT Verb
    MULTIPLY Verb
    DIVIDE Verb

    Module 4 : Selection

    Module 5 : Iteration

    Module 6 : Sequential Files

    IF Statement
    Condition Types
    Relation and Class
    Sign and Complex
    Truth Tables
    Implied Subjects
    Nested IF's
    END-IF vs. Period
    SET Verb Metalanguage
    Decision Tables
    EVALUATE Metalanguage
    Open Subroutines
    Closed Subroutines
    PERFORM NamedBlock
    PERFORM..THRU Dangers
    PERFORM..TIMES
    Inline Execution
    Out-of-Line Execution
    PERFORM..UNTIL
    UNTIL Condition
    PERFORM..VARYING
    WITH TEST
    Records and Fields
    Processing Files
    Implications of Buffers
    Creating Records
    Record Buffers
    SELECT and ASSIGN
    OPEN and CLOSE
    READ and WRITE
    Multiple Records
    Type Code
    Variable-Length Records

    Module 7 : Tabular Data

    Module 8 : String Manipulation

    Module 9 : Classes and Objects

    Tables vs. Arrays
    Declaring Tables
    OCCURS Clause Rules
    Subscript Rules
    Multidimensional Tables
    Prefilled Tables
    SEARCH and SEARCH ALL
    INDEXED BY Clause
    Using SET
    KEY IS Clause
    Binary Search
    INSPECT Verb
    INSPECT .. TALLYING
    Modifying Phrases
    INSPECT .. REPLACING
    INSPECT .. CONVERTING
    String Concatenation
    STRING Verb
    String Splitting
    Data-Movement Termination
    UNSTRING Termination
    Reference Modification
    Module Strength
    Module Coupling
    Dictionary Class
    Cobol Classes
    Objects and Methods
    Registering Classes
    Object References
    Destroying Objects
    Object Identifiers
    SUPER and SELF
    Scope Issues
  • Course Cobol Programming : General

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  • Course Cobol Programming : Certificate