Duration

COBOL Programming

2 days

Overview

This course can only be delivered using customer software licenses.

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a legacy programming language used in business and administrative systems for enterprise operations. COBOL is a programming solution to business system challenges.

This training is aimed at web developers who wish to program in COBOL.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Write COBOL code for projects.
Retrieve and save data with COBOL.
Develop business-orientated applications in COBOL.

Prerequisites

Basic programming experience

Audience

Programmers

Outline

COBOL Fundamentals

What is COBOL?
Syntax overview
Data types

Preparing the Development Environment

Installing and configuring GnuCOBOL
Installing and configuring Cygwin

COBOL Programming

Working with verbs in COBOL
Branching in COBOL
Applying statements and functions

Loops and Conditi onals

Working with conditional statements
Using loops

Files in COBOL

Reading, processing, and writing to fi les
Checking for fi le errors
Working with master data fi les
Merging and sorting records

Tables in COBOL

Creating and searching tables

Data Handling

Filtering output and sanitizing input

Summary and Conclusion

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.