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.

Introduction to COBOL

Introduction to COBOL
Author: Ross A. Overbeek
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1986
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

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.

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!

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.

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.

COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET

COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET
Author: Chris L. Richardson
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781590590485

This is a comprehensive .NET-retraining guide written for the COBOL/CICS mainframe programmer from the perspective of a former COBOL/CICS programmer.

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.

DB2 for the COBOL Programmer

DB2 for the COBOL Programmer
Author: Curtis Garvin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781890774028

If you are looking for a practical DB2 book that focuses on application programming, this is the book for you. Written from the programmer's point of view, it will quickly teach you what you need to know to access and process DB2 data in your COBOL programs using embedded SQL. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to make it even more valuable to the programmer who is slugging it out on the job. You will learn: the critical DB2 concepts that let you understand how DB2 works; the basic DB2 coding features you will use in every program you write; how to use version 4 enhancements like outer joins and explicit syntax for inner joins; how to work with column functions, scalar functions, and subqueries to manipulate data; how to use error handling techniques and ROLLBACK to protect DB2 data; why program efficiency is vital under DB2... and more.

Visual COBOL

Visual COBOL
Author: Paul Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: COBOL (Computer program language)
ISBN: 9780692737446

Forget what you think you may know about COBOL. Even though the language is more than 50 years old, COBOL applications still reign in the world of enterprise IT. With billions of transactions executed every day and often running behind the scenes, COBOL systems touch many aspects of our daily lives. Your mission: To start a new era of innovation powered by modern tools that bridge COBOL systems to the world of Java and .NET. Brought to you by Micro Focus (www.microfocus.com), the leader in COBOL development tools, this book is written for the COBOL, Java and .NET developer. Key features include: A simplified real-world example to illustrate key concepts; an explanation of the .NET and Java object models for the COBOL developer; an introduction to COBOL for the Java or .NET developer; a complete reference to the new syntax for Visual COBOL; and a free student development tools license integrated within Visual Studio and Eclipse. The author, Paul Kelly, has worked at Micro Focus for over twenty years. He started as a technical author before moving into software development. Paul worked on Visual COBOL for 10 years between 2002 and 2012, initially on Visual Studio development, then later on Eclipse, before changing roles again to work as an architect developing a cloud-based SaaS offering for Micro Focus.