If you remember in PART 3 we, going trough the divisions and there where we saw that there is a “DATA DIVISION” DATA DIVISION – description (s) and definition (s) of data items referenced by the program (names, lengths, decimal point location, formats, and other) Data division explanation from part 3 The “DATA DIVISION” takes care… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 5: Lets display a variable
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The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 4: Our First Program, build and run it … on docker
Lets do it quick From this article we will start learning COBOL in step by step approach with smaller hands on examples. The prerequisites we will need: Docker installed Visual Studio code COBOL Source editing for Visual Studio Code plugin So lets begin From the last article, we know that we have several mandatory divisions… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 4: Our First Program, build and run it … on docker
The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 3: Program Structure
As in any language, a COBOL program contains hierarchically ordered syntactically correct set of statements.The difference from many languages from second generation (as COBOL is third generation programming language) is that the hierarchy consists of Divisions, Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences and Statements as follows (many Business Analysts, writers and content creators will recognise the structure I… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 3: Program Structure
The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 2: Basics
Due to it essence and origin, initially COBOL was widely used in punch card systems, that presented some limitations, that stay the same to this day. This limitation was to be adopted widely afterwards as there was a need for clear nomenclature and identification structure for clear differentiation of the statements. This limitation was to… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 2: Basics
The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud -Part 1: Brief Preface
What to expect from this series Hi, My name is Radoslav Sandov, you can call me Rado. I am a Solution Architect with more than 5 years (not much, bit also not little I guess) behind me migrating heavy enterprise mammoth monster solutions also creating new exciting enterprise solutions in more friendly and understandable premise,… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud -Part 1: Brief Preface