COBOL

The text includes additional chapters on the Year 2000 problem, structured programming and design, debugging, subprograms, table processing, sorting, screen I/O, sequential file maintenance, indexed files and object-oriented COBOL. Programming tips are provided throughout that go beyond the syntactical rules of COBOL in order to make programs easier to maintain and more efficient to run. The Fujitsu version teaches programming as it is practiced in the real world with sample projects that reflect Year 2000 considerations.

• Includes the new Fujitsu 4.0 software that includes the COBOL complier, editor, and project manager.
  
• Describes fully the use of the Fujitsu software in a new appendix
  
• Updates all listings in the text, especially those on screen processing, to reflect features in the new Fujitsu software.
  
• Shows how Visual Basic can be used to create Windows interfaces for COBOL programs
  
• Details student projects to reflect Year 2000 considerations.

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: From Coding Form to Computer

Chapter 3: A Methodology for Program Development

Chapter 4: The Identification Environment, and Data Divisions

Chapter 5: The Procedure Division

Chapter 6: Debugging

Chapter 7: Editing and Coding Standards

Chapter 8: Data Validation

Chapter 9: More About the Procedure Division

Chapter 10: Screen I-O

Chapter 11: Introduction to Tables

Chapter 12: Table Lookups

Chapter 13: Multilevel Tables

Chapter 14: Sorting

Chapter 15: Control Breaks

Chapter 16: Subprograms

Chapter 17: Sequential File Maintenance

Chapter 18: Indexed Files

Chapter 19: The Year 2000 Problem

Chapter 20: Object-Oriented COBOL Programming

Appendix A: Getting Started

Appendix B: Connecting COBOL97 and Visual Basic

Appendix C: Reserved Words

Appendix D: COBOL-85 Reference Summary

Appendix E: COBOL in the New Millennium

Appendix F: Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises

Appendix G: Projects

Index