Course Description (By Curriculum)
4 to 6 hours
Personnel requiring training in the programming of COBOL to build and maintain applications programs, particularly in the IBM Z/OS Entrerprise environment
Knowledge of programming, databases, files, and transactional systems
After completing this course, the student will be able to identify how to write basic COBOL programs.
The History of COBOL
The Four Program Divisions
Basic Syntax
Traditional COBOL Program Structure
Paragraphs and Sections
Program Control Verbs
Conditions and Conditional Execution
Move Instruction
Data Editing
Arithmetic Instructions ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, and DIVIDE
Compute and More Complex Formulae
Screen Dialog, DISPLAY, and ACCEPT
Time and Date Input Using ACCEPT
