Cobol

General Course Information

• Syllabus
• COBOL: From Micro to Mainframe, 3rd Edition by Grauer, Villar, and Buss.
• Programming Assignments Roadmap
• Sending Your Source Code by E-Mail
• About the Instructor

Lecture Notes, Documents, and Graphics

• Hello World!
• Files, Records, and Fields
• Getting Started with Micro Focus Personal COBOL
• The Programming Process
• Columns Count!
• Programmer-Supplied Names
• Literals
• Symbols
• Hello World, Version 5
• Arithmetic Verbs
• Picture Clauses
• Input Data for Program 1
• Example: The Grades Program
• Moving Alphanumeric Fields
• Printing from Cobol Programs
• Hello World, Version 6
• Hello World, Version 7
• Input Data for Program 2
• Nested IF-ELSE vs. EVALUATE
• System Date and Time Example
• Signed Numbers
• How Signed Numbers are Stored
• More Edited Numeric Fields
• Accumulating Running Totals
• Calculations in Project 7-3
• Input Data for Project 7-3
• Totals for Project 7-3
• Control Breaks
• Control Break Example
• Instructions for Program 4
• Input Data for Program 4
• Control Break Values for Program 4
• 88 Level Entries
• Using Parentheses
• Using INSPECT with Social Security Numbers
• UNSTRING and STRING
• The Hamburger Examples
• Input Data for Project 8-5
• Solutions for Project 8-5
• Numeric vs. Mnemonic Codes
• Reference Modification
• Tables
• Tables: Test Grading Example
• Tables: Election Example
• Table Lookups
• TEST BEFORE and TEST AFTER
• Index vs. Subscript
• SEARCH vs. SEARCH ALL
• Dynamic Table Load Example
• Tables: Weather Station Example
• Mailing Labels
• Instructions for Program 6
• Input Data for Program 6
• Sort Examples
• Input Data for Program 7
• Record Access and File Organization
• Indexed Files
• Indexed File Examples
• Program 8

External Web Links

• File Downloads for COBOL: From Micro to Mainframe
• From the Dustbin, Cobol Rises
• COBOL User Groups: COBUG
• COBOL FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• The COBOL Portal

Disclaimer: These external links are to other sites not under my control. The dynamic nature of the web means that sites change, documents come and go. So, I cannot promise that the web pages these links point to will be there forever. Any of these links may at any time "break" resulting in a "file not found" message if the original document is moved, renamed, or deleted.

Bill Rogers