Advanced COBOL Programming (Audio Training)

Course Description:
Advanced COBOL Programming is a self-paced audiocassette course providing comprehensive, practical training in advanced COBOL/400 tips and techniques for those with experience in interactive COBOL/400 programming.

Includes eight audiocassettes; Student text; Workbook; Interactive media

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:
   • Create programs that use multiple subfiles with updates to database files
   • Call a utility program from COBOL to perform character string searches
   • Call a utility program from COBOL to execute dynamic CL commands
   • Call a utility program to perform character translations
   • Create "smart" programs that handle program exceptions and error conditions
   • Create programs that access file member names, sizes, overrides, and more
   • Create split-screen and other multiple-subfile programs
   • Create Windows-style programs with user-defined streams

Audience: COBOL Programmers

Course Outline:
   Advanced Subfile Handling
   Managing Multiple Subfiles
   Multiple Subfiles with Database Update
   Detecting Database Changes
   Multiple Subfile Scrolling Character String Search
   Searching Database Files and Subfiles for Variable Character Strings
   QCLSCAN Program
   Variable Strings and Patterns
   Using Wildcards
   Case-sensitive Search Options Character Translation QDCXLATE Program
   Translating ASCII to and from EBCDIC
   Translating Uppercase to and from Lowercase
   Translating Characters with User-defined Tables
   Executing AS/400 Commands from Programs
   Incorporating a Command Line in Interactive Programs
   QCMDEXC Program Executing Commands from an Interactive Program
   Sending Command Messages to an Interactive Program
   Trapping Command Messages with Message Subfiles Feedback Areas I/O Feedback Areas
   Using the ACCEPT Command with an I/O Feedback Area
   Extracting Cursor Location
   Determining the Lowest Subfile Relative Record Number
   Using a DDS-described I/O Feedback Area Variable Help Windows
   Variable Starting Line Formats with Subfiles
   Cursor-sensitive Help Text
   "Point and Shoot" Function User-Defined Data Streams
   Creating User-positioned
   (Dynamic) Windows
   5250 Data Stream Commands
   Formatting Data Streams

Course Details:

Level:	Advanced
Subject:	Programming--COBOL
Length:	10 hrs.
Publisher:	ATS
Publish Date:	June 1998