COBOL Unleashed

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 1021 pages
• Published by: Sams
• Edition: 1st Edition September 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0672312549
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672312540
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 2.2 inches
• Weighs: 3.8 pounds

Book Description
COBOL Unleashed presents real-world solutions to the key programming problems facing COBOL programmers today. These solutions will be presented in a topic-by-topic method that will allow the reader to skip around the book to find the solutions key to them, without having to read the entire book from start to finish. Key topics include: - Year 2000 Problems and Solutions. - Legacy code migration, maintenance and reengineering. - Interoperability and compatibility of legacy systems. - Client/Server COBOL. - COBOL Database programming. - Transaction Processing. - Dynamic File Allocation. - Object-Oriented COBOL and COBOL 9X. - Tools and Vendors Appendix. - Syntax Reference Appendix.

• 125 billion lines of cable code must be inspected for Year 2000 compliance, increasing the demand for COBOL
• COBOL is a programming language for legacy systems for most large corporations
• Covers the key topics for COBOL programmers today: Year 2000 issues; legacy code migration, maintenance and integration; client/server COBOL; COBOL database programming: and object-oriented COBOL

Reader Reviews
This is one of the few books that contains anything about IDMS. All other IDMS books are out of print and hard to find. I authored Chapter 23 - The IDMS Chapter.