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Programming COBOL-85 extensions and COBOL-89
for independent platforms

This course describes and explains the features now available in COBOL-89. It includes a separate COBOL-85 (COBOL-II) topic for those delegates not familiar with the extensions, and full details of Intrinsic Functions that were added for those platforms that support them.

Audience

The course is ideal for COBOL programmers who have no or very little experience of COBOL-85 or will be working with a compiler that supports COBOL-89.

Prerequisites

All delegates attending this course should be experienced COBOL programmers.

Duration

2 days (3 days if the Debugging topic is included), hands-on.

Course objectives

On completion of this course, students can:

describe and use the COBOL-85 (ANSI-85) extensions
describe and use the COBOL-89 (ANSI-89) enhancements
describe the compile options available
understand and make effective use of Intrinsic Functions
be aware of the callable services

Course contents

COBOL-85 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-89 enhancements

31-bit addressability
Memory
Compiler enhancements
Compile options
CBL, PROCESS
*CBL, *CONTROL
TITLE

Intrinsic Functions

Date functions
Character functions
Numeric functions

Callable Services

New Subroutines

Debugging

Dumps and abends
Handling program run-time errors

page updated: 27/12/09

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