Structured Cobol Programming : Year 2000 Version

by Nancy B. Stern; Robert A. M. Stern; tern

• ISBN13: 9780471299875
• ISBN10: 0471299871
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Summary

This Sterns update addresses the most pressing issue of the day, the potential crippling of computer systems the moment we ring in the new millennium. This edition includes a revised disk, a full account of the problem and addressing its relevance to COBOL. It also discusses other issues that could have a profound impact on information processing in the new century.

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	(30)
Unit II Designing Structured Programs
Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs	130	(53)
Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively	183	(57)
Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions	240	(41)
Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements	281	(41)
Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM	322	(38)
Unit III Writing High-Level COBOL Programs
Control Break Processing	360	(47)
Data Validation	407	(30)
Array Processing and Table Handling	437	(83)
Unit IV File Maintenance
Sequential File Processing	520	(40)
Sorting and Merging	560	(37)
Indexed and Relative File Processing	597	(53)
Unit V Advanced Topics
Improving Program Performance Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements	650	(25)
The Report Writer Module	675	(28)
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming	703
Appendixes
A COBOL Character Set and Reserved Words	A-2
B Data Set for Programming Assignment 2 in Each Chapter	A-7
C Differences Among the COBOL Standards	A-9
D COBOL for the AS/400	A-13
E Glossary	A-29
Index	I-1