Cobol - I am Not even a Novice.........:o) need help..

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I am Not even a Novice.........:o) need help..

pratts

2007-01-31, 6:55 pm

Hey all,
As the subject line states I am just a biganner to Cobol ,I have got
good experience working on TSO ISPF but I am mostly involved in
testing of Mainframes based applicasion as such.Now i want to try my
hands on Cobol and JCL .

Now the proble over here is that I want to try out my Cobol progams
back at my Home ( as at my work Place it will not be appriciated) .So
can any one help me and tell me exactly what should be my approch in
this condition???

I was quite good with Programming as in my college days I was a well
known C,C++ programmer ( but those were good old college days).

I am using Windows XP back at home and I dont have access to
Mainframes.
:o(

Wating for reply.
Pratts

2007-01-31, 6:55 pm

In article <1170266773.602134.61820@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
pratts <its_prat

@rediffmail.com> wrote:

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>Now the proble over here is that I want to try out my Cobol progams
>back at my Home ( as at my work Place it will not be appriciated) .

Yes, I've worked at a lot of shops like that; all they want you to do is
write the code, if you want to test the program as part of debugging they
get all upset.

What you want to do is... nothing. Write the code, compile it, go home
and come back the next day saying 'Yes, I tested it, everything looked to
be fine.' Then, when the program blows up - or even better, runs for
months while creating bad output - you can say 'That's funny, it worked
great at home... maybe you have different data here that I didn't test
against.'

They will be so impressed that they will make you a manager... and I know
this because I am the King of England.

DD

Sergey Kashyrin

2007-01-31, 9:55 pm

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> Now i want to try my hands on Cobol and JCL .

For JCL on XP you'll need MicroFocus - that's a top $$$ so you can forget
it.

> I am using Windows XP back at home and I dont have access to
> Mainframes.

Assuming you are on x86, your choices are TinyCOBOL
(http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/) and OpenCobol
(http://www.opencobol.org/)
If you need a lot in a SCREEN stuff, your will have to go with Tiny,
otherwise Open is your choice.
For Open you can get the latest sources at
http://www.sim-basis.de/open-cobol-0.33.tar.gz and x86 binaries & VS2005
projects at http://kiska.net/opencobol/ and if you know C/C++ you might be
interested in Open because it translates Cobol into C (so with a small
efforts you can debug C code in VS2005).

Regards,
Sergey

Alistair

2007-02-01, 6:55 pm

On 31 Jan, 18:06, "pratts" <its_prat...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> As the subject line states I am just a biganner to Cobol ,I have got
> good experience working on TSO ISPF but I am mostly involved in
> testing of Mainframes based applicasion as such.Now i want to try my
> hands on Cobol and JCL .
>
> Now the proble over here is that I want to try out my Cobol progams
> back at my Home ( as at my work Place it will not be appriciated) .So
> can any one help me and tell me exactly what should be my approch in
> this condition???
>
> I was quite good with Programming as in my college days I was a well
> known C,C++ programmer ( but those were good old college days).
>
> I am using Windows XP back at home and I dont have access to
> Mainframes.
> :o(
>
> Wating for reply.
> Pratts

Fujitsu used to provide a student edition of Cobol which was Windows
XP capable and Cobol I and II compatible. They probably still do but I
couldn't find a reference on their global web site. However, Thane
Hubbell's book "Sams Teach Yourself Cobol in 24 Hours" (see
http://www.netcobol.com/info/teach24hours.htm for a review) did
contain a copy on cd-rom. Borrow it or buy it. It does work on Windows
XP (I have it running under XP), it is relatively easy to use and is
(95%) compatible with mainframe COBOLS that you will encounter.

Alistair

2007-02-01, 6:55 pm

On 1 Feb, 20:04, "Alistair" <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31 Jan, 18:06, "pratts" <its_prat...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
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> Fujitsu used to provide a student edition of Cobol which was Windows
> XP capable and Cobol I and II compatible. They probably still do but I
> couldn't find a reference on their global web site. However, Thane
> Hubbell's book "Sams Teach Yourself Cobol in 24 Hours" (seehttp://www.netcobol.com/info/teach24hours.htmfor a review) did
> contain a copy on cd-rom. Borrow it or buy it. It does work on Windows
> XP (I have it running under XP), it is relatively easy to use and is
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I hate being a completer finisher...

The download version of Fujitsu Cobol is available via a link from
page:

http://www.netcobol.com/student/cobol.htm

Use the download link. Do read the F***ing manuals before attempting
the hello world program.

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