COBOL Programming Course

Includes COBOL tutorials, COBOL example programs, COBOL programming exercises and COBOL self assessment questions.

Introduction to COBOL

	The structure of COBOL programs (new may 2002)
	Declaring data in COBOL
	Basic Procedure Division commands
	Getting Started
	These will be self assessment questions

COBOL Control structures

	Selection in COBOL
	Iteration in COBOL
	The Calculator and Countdown exercise
	These will be self assessment questions

Simple Sequential Files

	Introduction to Sequential files
	Processing Sequential files
	Reading Sequential Files
	Counting records in a Sequential File

Advanced data declaration

	Edited Pictures
	The USAGE clause (new may 2002)
	Writing records to a Sequential File
	Inserting records in a Sequential File

Advanced Sequential Files

	COBOL print files and variable-length records
	Sorting and Merging
	Basic Procedure Division commands
	Updating a Sequential File
	Sorting a Sequential File

Direct access files

	Introduction to direct access files
	Relative Files
	Indexed Files

COBOL tables

	Using tables
	Creating tables - syntax and semantics
	Searching tables
	Using Tables

Constructing large systems

	Contained and external sub-programs (new may 2002)
	The COPY verb (new may 2002)

COBOL string handling

	Inspect
	String
	Unstring
	Reference modification and Intrinsic Functions

The COBOL Report Writer

	Report Writer by example
	Report Writer syntax and semantics

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