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COBOL for the 21st Century, 11th Edition
ISBN: 978-0-471-72261-8
Paperback
832 pages
August 2005
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Unit I: The Basics.

1. An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL.

2. The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONS.

3. The DATA DIVISION.

4. Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION.

Unit II: Designing Structured Programs.

5. Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs.

6. Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively.

7. Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions.

8. Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements.

9. Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM.

Unit III: Writing High-Level COBOL Programs.

10. Control Break Processing.

11. Data Validation.

12. Array Processing and Table Handling.

Unit IV: File Maintenance.

13. Sequential File Processing.

14. Sorting and Merging.

15. Indexed and Relative File Processing.

Unit V: Advanced Topics.

16. Improving Program Performance Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements.

17. The Report Writer Module.

Appendixes.

A: COBOL Character Set and reserved Words.

B: Differences Among the COBOL Standards.

C: Glossary.

Index.