COBOL Basic Programming

Concepts

Course Plan
2016-17

Mainframe – foundation Phase

Technical Learning Services

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Table of contents

Course Objective 3
Course Content 4
Versrion History 6
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Course Objective
Course COBOL Basic Programming Concepts Code
Phase 1 Duration (Hrs)  
Prerequisties
Participants need to have prior knowledge/skill of
• Principles of programming
• Exposure to ISPF Editor - COBOL Profile, Sequence Numbering, Line and Primary Commands
• Understanding of Sequential and Partitioned Dataset Organization
• Create, Copy, Edit, Delete members in PDS and PS Datasets
Course Objectives
On completion of the course learner will be able to
• Understand structure of COBOL program
• Understand Data Movement
• Understand Processing of Control
• Develop COBOL program using Sequential files
Mode of Facilitation and S/W Required
• ILT and Hands-on
• PCOM

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Course Content
Concept
S.N0 Main Topics Sub Topics Type Day
         Computer Programming - An Overiew C1
         Application Program Development Process C1
         History of COBOL and Versions C1
        Program Structure C1
An Introduction to
        Divisions, Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences,
Structured C1
1 Statements
Program Design in
COBOL          Character Sets, Strings, Separators C1
         Coding Rules and Understanding Instruction
C2
Formats Day1
        Data Declaration C1
        Verbs - DISPLAY, ACCEPT, MOVE C2
         Write a simple COBOL program with DISPLAY and
First COBOL C2
2 ACCEPT statements
Program
         Compilation of Source Program and Execution C2
         Exercise-1 C3
Lab-Work          Exercise-2 C3
           Exercise-3 C3
         
         Categories of COBOL statements C1
PROCEDURE          Data Movement statements C2
3 DIVISION         GO TO and Perform Statements C2
- Data Handling         Conditional Statements (IF-THEN-ELSE, EVALUATE) C2 Day2
         Practice Program-1 C3
         Practice Program-2 C3
  Lab-Work
         Practice Program-3 C3
        
         ENVIRONMENT entries for defining file C2
PROCEDURE          DATA DIVISION entries to describe the file layout C2
DIVISION          Explain JCL DD statement linking Assigned file
4 C2
- Processing Batch name in SELECT
Files          Sequential File processing statements C2 Day3
         Exception Handling C2
         Practice Program-1 C3
  Lab-Work          Practice Program-2 C3
         Practice Program-3 C3
        
5 PROCEDURE         EIDIT CHARACTERS C2 Day4
DIVISION          Evaluate statements C2
- Logical Control          Arithmetic Verbs C2

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          Data Validation Techniques C1
Structures
         Practice Program-1 C3
  Lab-Work          Practice Program-2 C3
         Practice Program-3 C3
         
COBOL Case let          Practice Case Study C3 Day5
         

*Concept Type
C1 - Factual knowledge : The basic elements that associates must know and understand.
C2 - Conceptual knowledge : The interrelationships among the basic elements within a large
structure that enable them to function together.
C3 - Procedural Knowledge : How to do something; methods of inquiry and criteria for using skills,
algorithms, techniques and methods.

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Version Info

Collateral Details
Collateral Name Collateral Path
Course Presentation  
Lab Exercise  
Resource Required
• PC with Emulation software to access Mainframe
• Mainframe ID
References
• IBM Redbook - Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics – Publication No. SG24-6366-00
• IBM Publication – Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Programming Guide Version 3 Release 4 – Publication No.
SC27-1412-05
• IBM Publication – Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Language Reference Version 3 Release 4 – Publication No.
SC27-1408-04
• Structured Programming by Phillipakis
• COBOL Programming Including MS COBOL and COBOL-85 by Roy, M.K.; Ghosh, Dastidar D. Publisher:
Tata Mcgraw Hill (Published: 1989
• Structured Cobol Programming by Stern; Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Version History
Version # Date Created/Changed by Changes Made Reviewed by
1 13/06/2016 Srinivas Rao Godasu Initial Version Hanumantha Rao Gosala
         

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