CMDBID: 59243 | Course Code: VME,COBOL | Duration: 5 Days
Overview>
Delegates will learn to use all aspects of the COBOL language, along with the required SCL and Data Dictionary usage to input, compile, test and debug programs in a VME Environment.
Audience>
This course is for applications developers required to write, maintain or support VME COBOL applications. It is also suitable for staff requiring a COBOL refresher course, or those who are unfamiliar with the VME system.
Prerequisites>
This is an intensive course where delegates should be computer professionals with an aptitude for programming. Experience with another programming language would be beneficial but not essential. Delegates who are very new to IT should consider the more comprehensive, leisurely paced COBOL for VME superNOVA.
Outline>
Introduction
Introduction to COBOL.
Program Structure.
Data Definition
File Definitions.
Working Storage.
Internal Data Formats.
COPY DDS.
Procedure Division
Sequential File Handling.
Movement and conversion of Data.
Arithmetic verbs.
Sequence control statements.
IF, GO TO, PERFORM.
Compiling
Printing Considerations
Repeated Data Handling Subscripting and Indexing.
Complex File Handling
Indexed Sequential Files.
I-O Error Handling.
Relative Files.
Modular Programming
Calling External Modules.
Writing External Modules.
COBOL / SCL Interface
Testing and Debugging
SCL usage.
COBOL Debugging Facilities.
Interactive Testing System.
Data Manipulation Commands
Sorting and Merging
Our Clients
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well
as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.
