Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming, 3rdEdition - Softcover

DeWard Brown, Gary

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

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About this title

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.

Reviews

The Y2K drama will continue to grow until we ring in the new year. The problem is real; it will affect people with older PCs, and it will affect large mainframe systems that have been cobbled together from a multitude of old programming languages that few people use and understand today. Much of the retrofitting that is going on will actually introduce new bugs into the systems because the people doing the refixes didn't write the original code. These three books will be invaluable for businesspeople and consultants to larger companies dealing with major Y2K concerns. Individuals should check out The Year 2000 Personal Computer Fix-It Guide (LJ 1/99) and Y2K: The Clock Is Ticking! (Video Reviews, LJ 1/99).
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Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley &Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0471314811
• ISBN 13: 9780471314813
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 640