Synopses & Reviews
Section 1: Get started right4 chapters teach you how to design, code, and test structured COBOL programs that prepare reports. This includes the structured design methods that have become a de facto standard in industry.Section 2: Other COBOL essentialsLearn how to work with intrinsic functions, dates, character manipulation, tables, copy members, and subprograms.Section 3: COBOL for disk filesEverything you need to know to design and code structured programs that handle sequential, indexed, and relative files (VSAM files on a mainframe).Section 4: Related topics for the professional programmerExpand your view of COBOL in the workplace as you see how to do everyday tasks in the mainframe environment, like compile and run programs, develop interactive programs using CICS, handle DB2 database data in your programs, and maintain old programs.
Synopsis
This book is the #1 choice of professional COBOL programmers. It's the only book that shows how to design, code, test, and maintain structured COBOL programs on the IBM mainframes (or enterprise systems) that are used by the largest companies in the world. Besides COBOL, this book presents the IBM products that every mainframe programmer needs to know including TSO, ISPF, OS/390 JCL, VSAM Access Method Services, CICS, and DB2.This book is the #1 choice of professional COBOL programmers because it shows how to design, code, test, and maintain structured COBOL programs on the IBM mainframes (or enterprise systems) that are used by the largest companies in the world. Besides COBOL, this book presents the IBM products that every mainframe programmer needs to know, including TSO, ISPF, OS/390 JCL, VSAM Access Method Services, CICS, and DB2.