Structured Programming with COBOL Examples

Structured Programming with COBOL Examples
Author: Earl H. Parsons
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2002-11
Genre: COBOL (Computer program language)
ISBN: 0595250947

As the conversion of legacy systems continues, the ability to understand embedded business rules becomes more and more critical. This ability is directly related to the structure of the programs within those systems. We also see the need to teach structured programming to a new generation of programmers who must maintain the billions of lines of existing COBOL code. The ultimate purpose of this text is to discuss how to judge the level of structure of a program. We do this by defining structured programming and then discussing how a structured program can be built through the application of the concepts of coupling and cohesion. We also show how embedded business rules of the program can be separated from the data and presentation functions. The reader will be able to use to these skills to judge and to improve the structure of a new program or an existing program.

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours
Author: Thane Hubbell
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1998-11-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0768685206

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. 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!

Beginning COBOL for Programmers

Beginning COBOL for Programmers
Author: Michael Coughlan
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430262540

Beginning COBOL for Programmers is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programmers. This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to—or must—add COBOL to your repertoire. Perhaps you recognize the opportunities presented by the current COBOL skills crisis, or are working in a mission critical enterprise which retains legacy COBOL applications. Whatever your situation, Beginning COBOL for Programmers meets your needs as an established programmer moving to COBOL. Beginning COBOL for Programmers includes comprehensive coverage of ANS 85 COBOL features and techniques, including control structures, condition names, sequential and direct access files, data redefinition, string handling, decimal arithmetic, subprograms, and the report writer. The final chapter includes a substantial introduction to object-oriented COBOL. Benefiting from over one hundred example programs, you’ll receive an extensive introduction to the core and advanced features of the COBOL language and will learn to apply these through comprehensive and varied exercises. If you've inherited some legacy COBOL, you’ll be able to grasp the COBOL idioms, understand the constructs, and recognize what's happening in the code you’re working with. Today’s enterprise application developers will find that COBOL skills open new—or old—doors, and this extensive COBOL reference is the book to help you acquire and develop your COBOL skills.

Object-Oriented COBOL

Object-Oriented COBOL
Author: Edmund C. Arranga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1996
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780132611404

Walks COBOL users through the next phase of COBOL: Object-Oriented COBOL. Teaches how to integrate COBOL with object-oriented methodologies.

Murach's Mainframe COBOL

Murach's Mainframe COBOL
Author: Mike Murach
Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774240

This is the latest edition of our classic COBOL book that has set the standard for structured design and coding since the mid-1970s. So if you want to learn how to write COBOL programs the way they're written in the best enterprise COBOL shops, this is the book for you. And when you're done learning from this book, it becomes the best reference you'll ever find for use on the job. Throughout the book, you will learn how to use COBOL on IBM mainframes because that's where 90% or more of all COBOL is running. But to work on a mainframe, you need to know more than just the COBOL language. That's why this book also shows you: how to use the ISPF editor for entering programs; how to use TSO/E and JCL to compile and test programs; how to use the AMS utility to work with VSAM files; how to use CICS for developing interactive COBOL programs; how to use DB2 for developing COBOL programs that handle database data; how to maintain legacy programs. If you want to learn COBOL for other platforms, this book will get you off to a good start because COBOL is a standard language. In fact, all of the COBOL that's presented in this book will also run on any other platform that has a COBOL compiler. Remember, though, that billions of lines of mainframe COBOL are currently in use, and those programs will keep programmers busy for many years to come.

COBOL I Essentials

COBOL I Essentials
Author:
Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.
Total Pages: 132
Release:
Genre: COBOL (Computer program language)
ISBN: 9780738670508

Reviews program structure and general syntax, procedure division structure and statements, structured programming, and ANSI COBOL reserved words.

Programming in Cobol/400

Programming in Cobol/400
Author: James Cooper
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 804
Release: 1997-03-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780471127222

For companies moving their COBOL applications from older mainframes to AS/400, this book cover the specific tools from COBOL 400 that programmers need to convert and develop their applications.

Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days

Teach Yourself COBOL in 21 Days
Author: Mo Budlong
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 1162
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780672304699

This tutorial on COBOL includes question and answer sections, short examples and more.

Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer

Murach's CICS for the COBOL Programmer
Author: Raul Menendez
Publisher: Murach: Training & Reference
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774097

Join the more than 150,000 programmers who have learned CICS using CICS books alone. Now, the two-part CICS for the COBOL Programmer has been revised into a single volume that meets today's need for fast-paced training. Readers get all the commands and features that are current today--plus, new chapters on creating web or component-based programs--in just 630, information-packed pages.

From COBOL to OOP

From COBOL to OOP
Author: Markus Knasmüller
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781558608221

Programming as an engineering discipline -- Basics -- Data structures and algorithms -- True object-oriented programming -- Object-oriented programming -- Databases -- Graphical user interfaces -- COBOL to OOP in practice.