Sams Teach Yourself Cobol in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours teaches the basics of COBOL programming in 24 step-by-step lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one providing a solid foundation in COBOL programming concepts and techniques. Coupled with the source code and the compiler available from Fujitsu, this hands-on guide is the easiest, fastest way to begin creating standard COBOL compliant code. Business professionals and programmers from other languages will find this hands-on, task-oriented tutorial extremely useful for learning the essential features and concepts of COBOL programming. Writing a program can be a complex task. Concentrating on one development tool guides you to good results every time. There will be no programs that will not compile!

Thane Hubbell has been a COBOL programmer for 15 years. Thane possesses a working knowledge on a variety of systems, from mainframes to minis to PCs. He has designed and developed full scale systems from the initial concept or idea to the deployed product. Through his role as a flight instructor, Thane has come to understand how people learn and think in high pressure situations – like in a programming environment . Initially a self taught programmer, with later education from IBM, Thane knows what it takes to learn a programming language on your own and how to teach one.

Introduction

1

(4)

PART I COBOL PROGRAM BASICS

5

(202)

Getting Started

7

(14)

Writing Your First Program in COBOL

21

(18)

Different Data Types

39

(22)

Basic User Interface

61

(20)

Procedure Division

81

(14)

Manipulating Data

95

(16)

Manipulating String Data

111

(14)

Conditional Statements

125

(16)

The Evaluate Statement

141

(14)

Processing Loops

155

(16)

Advanced Perform Statements

171

(16)

Tables

187

(20)

PART II FILE HANDLING

207

(96)

Sequential Files

209

(22)

Indexed Files

231

(18)

Reading Indexed File Records

249

(20)

Updating Indexed File Records

269

(16)

Sorting

285

(18)

PART III BUSINESS PROCESSING

303

(62)

Master File Updating

305

(22)

Reporting

327

(16)

Advanced Reporting

343

(22)

PART IV MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

365

(42)

Date Manipulation

367

(22)

Other Intrinsic Functions

389

(18)

PART V ADVANCED TOPICS

407

(44)

The Call Interface

409

(18)

The Graphical User Interface

427

(24)

Appendix A Quiz and Exercise Questions and Answers

See CD-ROM

Index

451

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