WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Programmers familiar with other programming languages, and current COBOL programmers who would like more complete training, who will be maintaining, enhancing, or creating COBOL85 programs.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• learn the basic structure of the COBOL language
• Understand syntax rules and statement structure.
• Build several programs to exercise basic functions and ENSCRIBE file access.
• Cover PERFORM, INSPECT, EVALUATE, and SEARCH statements
• Learn how to create, use and maintain DDL-based copybooks
• Learn basic testing techniques, including unit, integrated, and regression testing

PREREQUISITES

• PLI202 - Introduction to Tandem for Programmers -or- prior equivalent experience
• Preferably some coding experience on at least one other enterprise-level language, such as C, Java, or TAL

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• Module 1 - Introduction to the COBOL85 Language
• Purpose and Brief History of COBOL
• COBOL in the NonStop World
• The OLTP Environment
• Benefits of Modularity and Replication
• Pathway and Web-Server Environments
• Module 2 - COBOL85 Language Basics
• Program Organization and ISO Standards
• Tandem Reference Layouts
• Comments and Reserved Words
• Identification and Environment Divisions
• Data Division, Assigns and DEFINEs
• Variable Declarations
• File Section, Working- and Extended-Storage Sections
• LINKAGE Section
• ACCEPT and DISPLAY Verbs
• Compiling Servers, FIXERRS Function, Native Mode Compiling
• Lab - Basic coding, compiling and use of FIXERRS. Use accept/display to process results.
• Module 3 - Essential COBOL85 Coding
• Program Code Design
• Paragraph Naming
• Sentence, Imperative and Conditional Statements
• MOVE, Essential Arithmetic, IF, Loops, PERFORM, EVALUATE Statements
• Module 4 - Inspect Basics
• Normal Inspect Commands
• Using ALIASes and Conditional Breaks
• Starting and Using Inspect
• Saveabend Files
• Starting Inspect for Pathway Servers
• Lab - Structured Programming Lab - Use conditional statements, loops and performs to handle processing. Use Inspect.
• Module 5 - Advanced COBOL Coding
• Table Handling Basics
• SEARCH, STRING and UNSTRING verbs
• Reference Modifiers
• The GUARDIAN API
• Using GETPARAMTEXT
• NonStop Coding
• Lab - Extensive half-day lab building, loading, and referencing tables. Will string table components into a message to be displayed. Also will be processing params from TACL and use the Guardian API.
• Module 6 - Server Fundamentals
• OLTP Requirements
• Handling $RECEIVE
• Interprocess Messaging in COBOL85
• MESSAGE SOURCE Phrase
• Context Free Servers
• Critical Database Access Issues, Locking and Concurrency
• Lab - Reading and processing messages from $RECEIVE. Will also employ three-image update technique and record locking.
• Module 7 - ENSCRIBE Access
• File Types, Structured File characteristics
• SELECT, ASSIGN and DEFINE statements
• Error and FIle Status codes
• Context Free Servers
• Server Access to files - SELECT, file OPENs and CLOSEs
• Error and File Status variables
• The START verb
• Positioning, Alternate Key positioning, Using GENERIC clause
• Context-Free File Positioning Techniques
• WRITE, REWRITE and DELETE Statements
• Lab - ENSCRIBE access lab. Read, Write, Delete and Update functions, including random positioning and context-free positioning techniques.
• Module 8 - DDL, and Testing Techniques
• What is DDL?
• Creating the Dictionary
• DEFining Variables
• Using variables to build structures, records, and file layouts
• Maintaining DDL Dictionaries
• Testing Categories
• Unit, Integrated and Regression Testing Techniques
• Lab - Create and modify dictionaries using DDL
• Module 9 - Appendix A - Tandem Extensions to COBOL85 - Course Summary
• Langauge Extensions
• Environment, Data and Procedure Division Extensions
• Common Runtime Environment
• CRE Procedures
• Course review and evaluations