This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to—or must—add COBOL to your repertoire.
The #1 choice of professional COBOL programmers because it shows how to design, code, test, and maintain structured COBOL programs on the IBM mainframes (or enterprise systems), this book also presents the IBM products that every mainframe ...
This new edition features the development of graphical user interfaces (GUI's) using the latest in Java Swing components.
The resulting design documents will include physical dataflow diagrams, program specifications, screen and report examples, testing requirements, and prototyping. In the structured coding phase we translate the program specifications ...
CHAPTER 2 PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND GENERAL SYNTAX 2.1 NOTATION A consistent notation is used in describing COBOL statement and clause formats as shown in Figure 2.1 . COBOL is based on programming language concepts used in other high level ...
Scope One of the significant changes in the COBOL 85 standard was the ability to enhance modularity and localization . Modularity and localization are served by limiting the area of influence of data and operations to well - defined ...
CHAPTER 10 COBOL - 74 VERSUS COBOL - 85 The following is an overview of differences between COBOL - 74 and COBOL - 85 . Only the important differences involving additional features included in revised COBOL - 85 standard are covered .
The development and maintenance of these systems requires COBOL developers to know object-oriented concepts. Markus Knasmüller brings to this book his extensive experience migrating COBOL development teams to OO projects.
You learn how to write loops that mirror the familiar COBOL PERFORM statement , including the PERFORM - UNTIL , PERFORM - VARYING - UNTIL , and PERFORMVARYING - UNTIL - AFTER . You will see that Java has three different types of loops ...
As many lecture courses have been based upon earlier editions of this book, this edition maintains the highly successful style and format and has been updated to include the 'Intrinsic Function Module for COBOL'. (This is the ANSI Standard ...