Descriptions:

Based on the best-selling, COBOL text by Robert and Nancy Stern.
* Increased coverage of ILE COBOL and subfiles.

 

Table of Contents:

1. Physical Files.

2. An Introduction to Programming in COBOL/400.

3. Defining Files and Processing Data.

4. Printing Reports.

5. Designing Structured Programs.

6. Moving Data and Text Manipulation.

7. Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs.

8. Decision-Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements.

9. Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM.

10. The COPY and CALL Statements.

11. Logical Files.

12. Control Break Processing.

13. Random File Access for Keyed Files.

14. Interactive Programming.

15. Single-Level Arrays and Tables.

16. Multiple-Level Arrays and Tables.

17. Subfile Programming.

Appendix A. The 5250 Keyboard.

Appendix B. COBOL Character Set and Reserved Words.

Appendix C. CRTBNDCBL Command and PROCESS Statement.

Index.

Additional chapters available from the Programming in COBOL/400 web site

18. Working in the iSeries Programming Environment.

19. Externally Described Printer Files.

20. Sorting and Merging.

Appendix D. Differences Between COBOL 74 and COBOL 85.

Appendix E. Solutions to Chapter self-test Questions.

Appendix F. Glossary.