SUMMARY:   Suitable for the BCS Mainframe Technology Professional Exam for Level 1 Applications Developer. AUDIENCE:   Application Programmers with minimal experience in COBOL who require formal training in the basic language features and programming techniques. PREREQUISITES:   An understanding of computer concepts is assumed. DURATION:   5 days. Hands on. APPROACH:   COBOL Part 2 OBJECTIVES:   Each delegate will acquire a working knowledge of COBOL and will gain a solid foundation in the fundamentals of COBOL coding including program structure, design, execution and debugging. The concepts of structured programming are introduced with examples and explanation. Good programming practice is encouraged throughout. The course starts with the basics and builds with hands-on assignments until the delegates are capable of complex programming logic and design. COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction   Divisions of a COBOL program   COBOL character set   Words   Constants   Rules for continuation   Punctuation rules   COBOL coding format   Format notation IDENTIFICATION DIVISION ENVIRONMENT DIVISION   CONFIGURATION SECTION   INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION DATA DIVISION   File Description   Data Description     Level Number     Data-name / FILLER clause     REDEFINES clause     BLANK WHEN ZERO clause     PICTURE clause     Data Types (Alphabetic, Alphanumeric and Numeric) PROCEDURE DIVISION   OPEN statement   CLOSE statement   READ statement   WRITE statement (disks, cartridges and tapes)   MOVE statement Program Control   GO TO statement PERFORM statement   PERFORM with TIMES   PERFORM with UNTIL   EXIT statement   STOP statement DATA DIVISION   VALUE clause   SIGN IS clause   USAGE clause (DISPLAY, COMP, COMP-3)   Data Types - Numeric PROCEDURE DIVISION   Conditional Expressions     Relation condition     Class condition     Sign condition     Condition - Name condition     Complex condition     Order of evaluation of conditional statements     IF statement DATA DIVISION   88 levels PROCEDURE DIVISION   EVALUATE statement   SET statement   DISPLAY statement   ACCEPT statement   Arithmetic statements   ADD statement   SUBTRACT statement   MULTIPLY statement   DIVIDE statement   COMPUTE statement PROCEDURE DIVISION   WRITE statement (printing) DATA DIVISION   Edited Data     Alphanumeric Edited     Numeric Edited       Simple Insertion       Special Insertion       Fixed Insertion       Floating Insertion       Suppression and Replacement WORKSHOPS: Workshops in this class are conducted in a hands-on environment. Delegates will code execute and debug a series of programs serving as an excellent example for future programming in COBOL. AS03/10