About this Course

This course provides application developers with more complex knowledge in developing COBOL programs in a mainframe environment.

Audience Profile

Application programmers who want to learn more COBOL.

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the principles and practices of working with files
• Be able to code COBOL programs which utilize files
• Understand and code COBOL programs using SORT/MERGE
• Understand how to work with CICS applications
• Understand how to work with DB2 applications

Prerequisites

Students MUST be familiar with z/OS JCL, TSO/ISPF and z/OS Utilities and a programming background is preferred. Students MUST have taken CO1010 course, Introduction to COBOL Programming or have comparable experience.

Course Outline

• Concepts and terms for working with disk files
• How to work with sequential files
• How to use Access Method Services to work with VSAM files
• How to work with indexed files
• How to work with relative files
• How to use the sort/merge feature
• How to use CICS to develop interactive programs
• How to use DB2 to develop database programs