VME COBOL Conversion Course

Audience

This is the ideal course for experienced program 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

Delegates should have a working knowledge of program development in any language.

Duration

5 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

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.

Course Content

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
Sequential File Handling
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