Converting to COBOL II

Course Number:  641-TF
Recommended Duration:  2 days

Intended Audience
Experienced COBOL programmers who are converting applications from an OS/VS COBOL environment to a COBOL II environment.

Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to convert existing OS/VS COBOL programs to COBOL II, and develop new programs using the new features of the language supported by COBOL II.  In addition, students will acquire facility with the COBOL II compiler.  There are five hands-on exercises.

Prerequisites
The student should have experience coding COBOL programs and should be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.

Topics

• What has been eliminated

• Language features that are different

• Language features that have been modified or enhanced

• 31-bit addressing support

• Scope delimiters

• EVALUATE

• POINTER variables

• INITIALIZE

• Compiler features

• Conversion aids

• Conversion strategies

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