Paperback - 1008 pages with CD-Rom, February 1999, Sybex, ISBN: 078212321X
Mastering COBOL is a book for experienced programmers who want to tackle the challenge of modifying legacy code. Unique in its presentation, Mastering COBOL not only provides an annotated and exemplified language reference, it introduces the reader to the other major components typically found in legacy enviroments including JCL, CICS, IMS and SQL.
Mastering COBOL describes the internal data representations necessary to connect COBOL to other languages, shows the elements of both structured and object-oriented COBOL programming, and shows how to do mainframe development in a PC environment. Mastering COBOL comes with a CD-ROM that contains a complete, state-of-the-art COBOL 4.0 environment from Fujitsu, including COBOL compilers for Windows, HP-UX and Sun, programming tools and sample programs from the book. The Fjjitsu COBOL compiler alone is worth several times the price of the book!
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2 Overview of a COBOL Program
3 COBOL Program Divisions
4 COBOL Clauses and Statements
5 Table Handling
6 Subprograms in COBOL
7 File I/O
8 Sort and Merge Facilities
9 The Report Writer Module
10 Intrinsic Functions
11 The COBOL Debugger
12 COBOL Extensions
13 COBOL Legacy Systems
14 CICS and SQL Programming
15 IMS Programming
16 JCL Programming
17 Compiling and Linking COBOL Programs
18 Testing and Debugging COBOL Programs
19 Understanding and Solving The Year 2000 Problem
20 Converting Programs to Use the EURO
21 Data Challenges
22 Structured COBOL
23 The Next COBOL Standard
24 Object-Oriented COBOL
25 Internal Data Representation
26 Offloading Mainframe COBOL Development to the PC
27 GUI COBOL Applications
28 COBOL and Other Languages
A 64-Bit COBOL
B COBOL Reserved Words
C ASCII and EBCDIC Character Sets
D Fujitsu COBOL Installation
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