COBOL Programming

• Basic programming experience

Audience

• Programmers

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 instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) 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.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

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 Conditionals

• Working with conditional statements
• Using loops

Files in COBOL

• Reading, processing, and writing to files
• Checking for file errors
• Working with master data files
• Merging and sorting records

Tables in COBOL

• Creating and searching tables

Data Handling

• Filtering output and sanitizing input

Summary and Conclusion