COBOL/MVS (COBOL/370) Differences

COBOL/MVS COBOL/370) Differences

LENGTH OF COURSE:
2 Days

DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for all levels of technical professionals wanting to understand the capabilities of COBOL/MVS, how it differs from COBOL or COBOL II and how all of it operates in the LE/MVS environment. Both experienced and novice students will gain insight into the features of COBOL/MVS and the migration to that product.

PREREQUISITES: Students should have a working knowledge of COBOL or COBOL II. In addition, the student needs to have a basic understanding of Linkage Editor/Binder processing.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture and Hands-On Labs (when/where available).

AUDIENCE

All levels of technical professionals.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Introduction to COBOL / MVS and LE
- Overall Environment
- Product Relationships
- Advantages
- Major Changes
General Conversion Strategy
- Moving Run Time to LE
- Taking Inventory
- Establishing a Strategy to Upgrade the Source
Moving from COBOL or COBOL II to COBOL/MVS
- Understanding New Features
  - Intrinsic Functions and Callable Services
  - New Compiler and Run Time Options
- Addressing the Year 2000 Problem
- Storage Tuning Changes
- Managing Messages, Dump Services and SYSOUT
- Communicating with Other Languages
- Determining Subsystem Changes (CICS & IMS)

Upgrading Source to COBOL/MVS
- Modifying COBOL or COBOL II Programs and Compiling them
- Converting Subsystem Source Code
An Overview of Conversion Tools for Source Programs
- Compiler Options
- Conversion Aids
Debugging Tool Comparison
- Existing Applications
- Mixed Applications
- Features of the Debugging Tool
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Answers

FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Paul did very well. He couldn't have made this dry stuff any more interesting."

Garry Houston
Tandy Corp.

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