Training

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COBOL training and education

This five-day course provides analysts, programmers and managers with a working knowledge of COBOL programming. An introduction to the four COBOL programming language divisions will be presented. Students will compile, debug, and edit COBOL programs. A variety of data access options will also be covered and students will build COBOL projects during the session.

This course takes place in a workshop setting and includes intensive instruction and hands-on exercises.

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COBOL Programming for Developers

Prerequisites:

  • Basic understanding of developing and distributing applications in one or more programming languages (C/C++/C#, Java, etc.).

Note: this course does not require any prior knowledge of the COBOL programming language.

Topics include:

  • Introduction to COBOL
  • Declaring Data in COBOL
  • Basic Procedure Division Commands
  • COBOL Selection Constructs
  • Sequential, Direct Access, Relative, and Indexed Files
  • Sorting and Merging Files
  • Tables (Creating, Searching)
  • The COPY, INSPECT, STRING, UNSTRING verb
  • Reference Modification and Intrinsic Functions
  • User interfaces
  • The COBOL Report Writer
Electives

This training course does not cover topics such as SQL, CICS or JCL. Contact Veryant for information about training options on these topics.

For more information

Contact your isCOBOL representative or regional distributor for more information about training opportunities from Veryant. You can also email your request for upcoming product training dates or to request more information on training options to sales