Unit I: The Basics1. An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL.2. The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONs.3. The DATA DIVISION.4. Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION.
Unit II: Designing Structured Programs.5. Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs.6. Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively.7. Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions.8.
Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements.9. Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM.Unit III: Writing High-Level COBOL Programs.10. Control Break Processing.11. Data Validation.
12. Array Processing and Table Handling.Unit IV: File Maintenance13. Sequential File Processing.14. Sorting and Merging.15. Indexed and Relative File Processing.
Unit V: Advanced Topics.16. Improving Program Performance Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements.17. The Report Writer Module.18. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.19.
Interactive Programming.Appendix A: COBOL Character Set and reserved Words.Appendix B: Data Set for Programming Assignment 2 in Each Chapter.Appendix C: Differences Among the COBOL Standards.Appendix D: COBOL and the Year 2000 Problem.Appendix E: Glossary.