On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

1. Code and test programs using “IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390” compiler to process sequential files
2. Describe fields, records, and files to COBOL
3. Correctly use the most common COBOL verbs in their various forms
4. Use the following techniques in designing or coding COBOL programs:
   • Data editing, including use of multiple currency symbols and the Euro
   • Loop control and switch setting and testing
   • Move mode and locate mode processing
   • Pseudocoding as a design tool
   • Reference modification
   • Some intrinsic functions
   • The COBOL COPY statement
5. Code COBOL code using installation standards, with an awareness of the ANSI standard
6. Define numeric data items to COBOL that are packed decimal or binary integer in format
7. Use the COBOL arithmetic verbs ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, and COMPUTE
8. Code and test COBOL programs to create reports, including page break processing and control breaks
9. Code and test COBOL programs to perform batch transaction processing using match-merge logic (sequential processing of transaction and master files), including update in place for sequential disk files
10. Use the following techniques in designing or coding COBOL programs:
    • Top down development
    • Structured programming
    • Pseudocoding as a design tool
    • Modular design
11. Code COBOL programs that read from and write to HFS files on systems using z/OS UNIX.

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