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Mainframe COBOL training focuses on teaching the fundamentals and advanced aspects of the COBOL programming language, primarily used on mainframe computers. This course equips learners with skills in writing, maintaining, and debugging COBOL code, essential for managing robust, enterprise-level applications. It's tailored for professionals aiming to excel in industries that rely on mainframe systems, like finance and government.
- What is Enterprise COBOL
- COBOL divisions
- Analyzing a sample COBOL program
- Column layout
- Exercise: First Program

- Creating a Loadlib PDS
- Compile and Link PROC
- Compile and Link JCL
- Exercise: Compile Program

- Compile, Link and GO PROC
- Enterprise COBOL IBM Manuals
- Language Environment IBM Manuals
- Exericise: Run Program

- Coding the Identification Division
- Load Libraries and CSECTs
- Self-Documentation
- Exercise: Identification Division

- The four sections of the DATA division
- Naming COBOL Variables/Identifiers
- Level Numbers
- Group and Elementary Items
- Picture Clauses
- Value Clause
- Exercise: Data Division Part 1

- Numeric Edited Pictures
- Figurative Constants
- Data Continuation
- Numeric and Alphanumeric Literals/Values
- Exercise: Data Division Part 2

- FILLER and Implied FILLER
- Blank When Zero
- Justified
- QUALIFICATION - for Duplicate Variables
- REDEFINES
- WORKING-STORAGE Layout
- Exercise: Data Division Part 3

- COBOL Numbers
- Hexadecimal in COBOL
- Data Representation
- USAGE IS DISPLAY - EBCDIC
- USAGE IS COMP-3
- Big Decimal Numbers - 31 Digits
- Exercise: COBOL Numbers

- ADD
- SUBTRACT
- MULTIPLY
- DIVIDE
- COMPUTE
- MOVE
- Exercise: Arithmetic and Assignment

- Conditions
- Numeric and Alphabetic Class Tests
- IF and Nested IF
- Coding and Setting 88's
- Exercise: Conditions

- IN-LINE PERFORMs
- OUT-OF-LINE PERFORMs
- Referencing Modification - Substring
- Exercise: Looping

- Structured Programming Concepts
- Modular Programming
- Functional Decomposition
- Pseudocode
- Structured Code
- Meaningful Names
- Exercise: Sequential I/O

- More Functional Decomposition
- Pseudocode
- Structured Code and Meaningful Names
- Testing
- Exercise: Structured Programming

- I/O Processing
- SELECT...ASSIGN...
- FD - File Definition
- OPEN and CLOSE
- READ and READ INTO
- WRITE and WRITE FROM
- A Sample Program for Sequential I/O
- Sample JCL

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