Malcolm Kayser Computer Training Limited | COBOL Programming course | Advanced

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Advanced COBOL Programming

This course describes and explains the features now available in COBOL/370. It includes a separate COBOL-85 (COBOL-II) topic for those delegates not familiar with the extensions, a dump analysis topic and full details of Intrinsic Functions that were added in 1989 for those platforms that support them.

Audience

The course is ideal for COBOL programmers who have no or very little experience of COBOL-II or will be working with the COBOL/370 compiler.

Prerequisites

All delegates attending this course should be experienced COBOL programmers.

Duration

2 - 4 days (depending on requirements and whether the Debugging topic is included), hands-on.

Course objectives

On completion of this course, students will be able to:

describe and use the ANSI-85 extensions
understand the COBOL/370 enhancements
understand and make effective use of Intrinsic Functions
describe the compile and run-time options available
know the benefits of Language Environment/370 (LE/370)
understand and use the various debugging facilities

Course contents

COBOL-II extensions

EVALUATE
INITIALIZE
SET
In-line PERFORM
Scope delimiters
Sub-strings
Miscellaneous changes
CALLing external programs and passing data
Differences to ANSI-74 standard

COBOL/370 enhancements

New products
31-bit addressability
Memory
Compiler enhancements
Compile options
Run-time options
CBL, PROCESS
*CBL, *CONTROL
TITLE

Intrinsic Functions

Date functions
Character functions
Numeric functions

Language Environment/370 (LE/370)

CALLable services

FDUMP
CEEDUMP
ABEND-AID
System dumps and Abends
Handling program run-time errors

page updated: 27/12/09

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