Structured Cobol Programming: Update Version for 2001-2002

by Stern, Nancy; Stern, Robert A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780471438656
• ISBN10: 0471438650
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Table of Contents

Unit I The Basics
An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL	2	(33)
The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONs	35	(23)
The DATA DIVISION	58	(42)
Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION	100	(32)
Unit II Designing Structured Programs
Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs	132	(56)
Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively	188	(62)
Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions	250	(42)
Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements	292	(43)
Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM	335	(39)
Unit III Writing High-Level COBOL Programs
Control Break Processing	374	(48)
Data Validation	422	(34)
Array Processing and Table Handling	456	(84)
Unit IV File Maintenance
Sequential File Processing	540	(48)
Sorting and Merging	588	(37)
Indexed and Relative File Processing	625	(69)
Unit V Advanced Topics
Improving Program Productivity Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements	694	(25)
The Report Writer Module	719	(28)
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming	747
Appendixes
A COBOL Character Set and Reserved Words	A-2
B Differences Among the COBOL Standards	A-7
C The Future of COBOL: A Focus on Interactive Programming	A-11
D Glossary	A-35
Index	I-1