Advanced Cobol 3e - Softcover

DeWard Brown, Gary

 
9780471314813: Advanced Cobol 3e
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0471314811 ISBN 13: 9780471314813
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

The classic guide to programming in COBOL–updated, expanded, and even more user–friendly than before

Advanced Cobol, Third Edition

For many years, Gary Brown′s classic guide to advanced COBOL has been the on–the–job reference of choice for experienced COBOL programmers internationally. Without compromising on any of the outstanding features that made it so successful, this Third Edition has been updated and expanded to reflect all the important new trends and applications in COBOL programming. Packed with dozens of concise examples illustrating language features, and featuring several complete programs, this indispensable working resource arms you with practical coverage of:
∗ All essential COBOL terms, concepts, and statements
∗ COBOL programming solutions to the Y2K problem
∗ Full Screen terminal support, subprograms and functions, and COBOL Report Writer
∗ Items in proposed new ANSI Standard
∗ Object–oriented COBOL
∗ Obsolete statements and how to work around them
∗ COBOL for client/server and distributed computing
∗ Cross–system development
∗ Application programming interfaces

Wiley Computer Publishing.

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About the Author

GARY DEWARD BROWN is President of Spear H. Computing Corporation, a national computer consulting firm, and a widely respected expert on mainframe systems and COBOL programming. He is also the author of System 390 JCL, Fourth Edition, also published by Wiley.

From the Back Cover

The classic guide to programming in COBOL–updated, expanded, and even more user–friendly than before

Advanced Cobol, Third Edition

For many years, Gary Brown′s classic guide to advanced COBOL has been the on–the–job reference of choice for experienced COBOL programmers internationally. Without compromising on any of the outstanding features that made it so successful, this Third Edition has been updated and expanded to reflect all the important new trends and applications in COBOL programming. Packed with dozens of concise examples illustrating language features, and featuring several complete programs, this indispensable working resource arms you with practical coverage of:
∗ All essential COBOL terms, concepts, and statements
∗ COBOL programming solutions to the Y2K problem
∗ Full Screen terminal support, subprograms and functions, and COBOL Report Writer
∗ Items in proposed new ANSI Standard
∗ Object–oriented COBOL
∗ Obsolete statements and how to work around them
∗ COBOL for client/server and distributed computing
∗ Cross–system development
∗ Application programming interfaces

Wiley Computer Publishing.

Timely. Practical. Reliable.

Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0471314811
ISBN 13 
9780471314813
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
660