CIS 465

Advanced Cobol

Analysis, design and implementation of advanced business information systems using the COBOL programming language. The course focuses on the COBOL 85 standard and covers aspects of the previous COBOL 74 standard so that students have the abilities needed to maintain and modify older "legacy" systems. Topics covered include: array processing and multilevel tables; advanced file sorting, merging, and searching; indexed and interactive file processing; subroutines; ALL statement; COPY statement; VSAM file concepts; and CICS and SQL concepts. The IBM COBOL compiler is used on a system running under the VM/CMS operating system

Units: 3.0