Cobol Programming  

Course	Introduction to COBOL Programming
Level	Introductory
Overview	The participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of the COBOL language. They will get to learn the syntax, coding, designing and debugging techniques specific to the COBOL language. Lab sessions will help in reinforcing the concepts discussed during lectures.
Objective	On completing this course, the participants will - Understand the basic structure of a COBOL program. Learn how to write well designed structured COBOL programs. Learn how to write well designed structured COBOL programs. Learn how to invoke subprograms. Use COBOL features for arithmetic data manipulation. Learn how to use arrays and tables.
Duration	Seven (07) days: (09.30AM till 17.30AM)
Participant's Profile	Computer professionals having programming background but little or no experience of COBOL programming.
Prerequisite	Data processing concepts. Basic knowledge of programming concepts. Working knowledge of TSO, ISPF and JCL.
Follow-on session	CICS session is recommended after this course.
Course Contents	Day – 1 Introduction to COBOL Structure of COBOL programs Syntax and coding rules A sample COBOL program Basic set of COBOL instructions MOVE statement INITIALIZE statement ACCEPT and DISPLAY statements Lab Session – 1 Day – 2 Data Division Data item descriptions PICTURE clause USAGE clause VALUE clause REDEFINES clause RENAMES clause Lab Session – 2 Day – 3 Procedure Division Calculation statements PERFORM statement IF statement EVALUATE statement Lab Session – 3 Day – 4 File handling in COBOL Sequential, Indexed and Random files INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION – ENVIRONMENT division FILE SECTION – DATA division File processing statements Lab Session – 4 Day – 5 Table Handling Table definition in DATA division Indexing Table handling in PROCEDURE division Subscripting SEARCH statement Lab Session – 5 Day – 6 Subprograms and Nested programs CALL statement LINKAGE section Nested programs GLOBAL and EXTERNAL data Lab Session – 6 Day – 7 Advanced COBOL statements INSPECT statement STRING statement UNSTRING statement Intrinsic functions Lab Session – 7 Lab Review