Structured COBOL programming : for the year 2000 and beyond

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Structured COBOL programming : for the year 2000 and beyond

Nancy Stern, Robert A. Stern

Wiley, c2000

9th ed

  • paper : alk. paper

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Includes The Wiley COBOL syntax reference guide with IBM and VAX enhancements / prepared by Nancy stern & Robert A. Stern

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COBOL is one of the traditional mainframe languages. Powerful PC compilers have become available which have widened the audience and applicability of the language. This text addresses the changing needs of COBOL programmers to understand, use, and maintain the vast amount of COBOL code in existence. It provides complete coverage of COBOL with an emphasis on COBOL 85. It also covers object-oriented programming which has recently been applied to the language. Included are special icons to reference the features of the COBOL standard and topics of significant interest to PC users. The update includes a revised disk and a chapter on the "Year 2000 Problem". This chapter provides a full account of this problem, how it arose, and its relevance to the COBOL programming language. It also discusses what must be done to fix the problem and other issues that could have a profound impact on information processing in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

  • THE BASICS
  • An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL
  • The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONs
  • The DATA DIVISION
  • Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION
  • DESIGINING STRUCTURED PROGRAMS
  • Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs
  • Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively
  • Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions
  • Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements
  • Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM
  • WRITING HIGH-LEVEL COBOL PROGRAMS
  • Control Break Processing
  • Data Validation
  • Array Processing and Table Handling
  • FILE MAINTENANCE
  • Sequential File Processing
  • Sorting and Merging
  • Indexed and Relative File Processing
  • ADVANCED TOPICS
  • Improving Program Productivity Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements
  • The Report Writer Module
  • An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
  • Appendices
  • Index.

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