Cobol Programming

SpiralTrain BV

In the course Cobol Programming from SpiralTrain participants learn to develop applications in the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL).

Price

from €1,999

Level

Not specified

Kind

Training

Subject

Automation and IT, Training and education

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Description

Cobol Intro The course starts with an overview of Cobol's typical features and program structure. The Cobol Metalanguage, Divisions, Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences and Statements are discussed. Data Declarations and Procedure Divisions Subsequently the use of Data Declarations and Procedure Divisions is treated. Attention is paid to literals, constants, variables, structured data and assignment. And also input and output and various verbs are discussed such as ACCEPT, DISPLAY, COMPUTE, ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY and DIVIDE. Control Flow Furthermore control flow constructions in Cobol with selections and iterations are part of the course program. This includes condition types, truth tables, decision tables, the EVALUATE Metalanguage and also PERFORM..THRU, PERFORM..TIMES and PERFORM..VARYING. Subroutines After a discussion of subroutines in Cobol, it is the turn of a treatment of reading and writing sequential files. Records Attention is paid to Records, Fields, Record Buffers, Variable-Length Records and the operations SELECT, ASSIGN, OPEN, CLOSE, READ and WRITE.