• Module 1 - Introduction to the COBOL85 Language
    o Purpose and Brief History of COBOL
    o COBOL in the NonStop World
    o The OLTP Environment
    o Benefits of Modularity and Replication
    o Pathway and Web-Server Environments
• Module 2 - COBOL85 Language Basics
    o Program Organization and ISO Standards
    o Tandem Reference Layouts
    o Comments and Reserved Words
    o Identification and Environment Divisions
    o Data Division, Assigns and DEFINEs
    o Variable Declarations
    o File Section, Working- and Extended-Storage Sections
    o LINKAGE Section
    o Compiling Servers, FIXERRS Function, Native Mode Compiling 
    o Lab – Basic coding, compiling and use of FIXERRS.
Use accept/display to process results
• Module 3 - Essential COBOL85 Coding
    o Program Code Design
    o Paragraph Naming
    o Sentence, Imperative and Conditional Statements
    o ACCEPT and DISPLAY Verbs
    o MOVE, Essential Arithmetic, IF, Loops, PERFORM, EVALUATE Statements
• Module 4 - Inspect Basics
    o Normal Inspect Commands
    o Using ALIASes and Conditional Breaks
    o Starting and Using Inspect
    o Saveabend Files
    o Starting Inspect for Pathway Servers
    o Lab- Structure Programming Lab – Use conditional statements, loops and performs to handle processing. Use Inspect
• Module 5 - Advanced COBOL Coding
    o Table Handling Basics
    o SEARCH, STRING and UNSTRING verbs
    o Reference Modifiers
    o The GUARDIAN API
    o Using GETPARAMTEXT
    o NonStop Coding
    o Lab – Extensive half-day lab building, loading, and referencing tables. Will string table components into a message to be displayed. Also will be processing params from TACL and use Guardian API.
• Module 6 - Server Fundamentals
    o OLTP Requirements
    o Handling $RECEIVE
    o Interprocess Messaging in COBOL85
    o MESSAGE SOURCE Phrase
    o Context Free Servers
    o Critical Database Access Issues, Locking and Concurrency
    o Lab – Reading and processing messages from $RECEIVE. Will also employ three-image update technique and record locking.
• Module 7 - ENSCRIBE Access
    o File Types, Structured File characteristics
    o SELECT, ASSIGN and DEFINE statements
    o Error and File Status codes
    o Context Free Servers
    o Server Access to files - SELECT, file OPENs and CLOSEs
    o Error and File Status variables
    o The START verb
    o Positioning, Alternate Key positioning, Using GENERIC clause
    o Context-Free File Positioning Techniques
    o WRITE, REWRITE and DELETE Statements
    o Lab – ENSCRIBE access lab. Read, Write, Delete and Update functions, including random positioning and context-free positioning techniques.
• Module 8 - DDL, and Testing Techniques
    o What is DDL?
    o Creating the Dictionary
    o DEFining Variables
    o Using variables to build structures, records, and file layouts
    o Maintaining DDL Dictionaries
    o Testing Categories
    o Unit, Integrated and Regression Testing Techniques
    o Lab – Create and modify dictionaries using DDL
• Module 9 - Appendix A - Tandem Extensions to COBOL85 - Course Summary
    o Language Extensions
    o Environment, Data and Procedure Division Extensions
    o Common Runtime Environment
    o CRE Procedures
    o Course review

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