Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL
Our content has been enhanced with a fourth book focused on testing. In partnership with the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL-Check, we have added hands-on labs involving unit tests.
Course #2 - Learning COBOL was also enhanced to include facts on the use of COBOL today as determined by the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Working Group Survey - #300
This is the third major release of the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. Please see the course PDFs below.
Highlights: #272 reorganizes the content into three courses: Getting Started, Learning COBOL, and Advanced Topics. This allows learners who already have Zowe and their VS Code environment set up to jump right into course 2 - Learning COBOL. #287 updates the content to leverage Zowe Version 2, which includes making use of Zowe team configuration to simplify the getting started experience #267 corrects the PERFORM VARYING AFTER example #274, #276, #279 add syntax highlighting for code snippets and enhance code readability #277, #278 improve code used in labs #280 adds error handling to code used in Debugging challenge #281 adds a step to verify that the Db2 table is properly loaded with data in the COBOL API Lab of the Advanced Topics Course #283 adds SQL error handling to the programs used in the COBOL API Lab #284 corrects binary range images used in the Advanced Topics Course
#233 & #246 update course images
#227 adds a chapter on table handling
#238 adds a chapter on ABEND handling
#231 adds a section on how to compile COBOL programs on z/OS using JCL in the Basic COBOL chapter
#240 adds a section on using copybooks in the Program Structure chapter
#214 updates all documentation links to the IBM Knowledge Center to reference Enterprise COBOL v6.3 and z/OS 2.4
#205 replaces STOP RUN with GOBACK so that programs will terminate more gracefully
#213 corrects the PERFORM WITH TEST AFTER UNTIL example in the course
#228 corrects examples on conditional names
#218 adds description for an elementary item
#203 renames CBL0033J to CBL0003J
#250 provides various minor edits to improve the course
#232 fixes broken links
#254 updates line number references
#243 adds a chapter on COBOL program compilation #234 adds a chapter on program tuning and simplification #235 adds a chapter on multithreading #215 describes two new features of Enterprise COBOL v6.3 – Dynamic-Length Items & UTF-8 Data #232 & #251 fix broken links
#186 clarifies course content to ensure learners understand which username to use in the exercises #187 and #188 provide minor changes to address issues raised by the community
#178 adds Numerical Data Representation chapter
#174 updates Code4z content #166 and #170 add comments to COBOL programs and update screenshots
#177 adds content on Enterprise COBOL APIs #164 adds COBOL Challenge - Hacker News Rankings for Mainframe/COBOL Posts #150 adds COBOL Challenge - The Unemployment Claims #148 adds COBOL Challenge - The COVID-19 Reports #138 & #139 add COBOL Challenge - Debugging
Please find the course PDF below. The following changes were made since the 2.0.0 release of the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course:
This is the second release of the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. Please find the course PDF below. The following changes were made since the initial release:
This is the initial release of the Open Mainframe Project's COBOL Programming Course. Please find the course PDF below.