Malcolm Kayser Computer Training Limited

Courses in Programming (including Cobol), UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe,
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COBOL Programming

This course provides a thorough grounding in the COBOL programming language and covers the latest release of COBOL (ANSI-89). Also included is an introduction to Intrinsic Functions.

Audience

This course is intended for programmers who are new to the COBOL programming language and need to write and maintain programs, or programmers who are converting from another high-level language.

Prerequisites

The course is suited to those students who are programmers, or those students who have had experience of programming. For those students not programmed before, have no concept of program design or are from a non-technical background, the 10-day Introduction to COBOL Programming course is recommended.

Duration

5 days consisting of lectures, quizzes and practical exercises.

Course objectives

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Make effective use of all main COBOL verbs and keywords.
Define and use internal and external data, correctly.
Use COBOL statements to process sequential files and non-sequential files.
Understand, create and process subscripted and indexed tables.
Use external subprograms.
Apply copy code to a program.
Use the FUNCTION keyword.
Write programs in a maintainable and efficient manner using structured code.
Test programs and, where necessary, debug them.

Course contents overview

History and development of COBOL
Compiling a program
Verbs/Keywords syntax and construct
Standards and Efficiency
Program structure
The four DIVISIONS
Input and Output Statements
Low-level input and output
Control Statements
Conditional Statements
Arithmetic Statements
Hierarchical levels and USAGE
Editing
Alternative Data Descriptions
String handling
Data Representation
Non-sequential files
Tables
CALL statement
COPY Statement
Introduction to Intrinsic Functions

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