Application Development Using LE Services + Beyond COBOL II
- Recommended Duration:
- 4 Days
- Version
- LE for OS/390 & VM.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to use the major facilities of the product "LE for OS/390 & VM", and will be able to describe the benefits and tradeoffs involved in using LE.
- Audience
- Experienced programmers who will be designing and coding applications that are to be run in an LE environment.
- Prerequisites
- At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong programming background in at least one of: COBOL, PL/I, C, or Assembler.
- Major Topics
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- Run-time environments
- LE message services
- The CEEBLDTX exec
- Tokens, return codes, and termination
- Storage management services
- Dump and abend services
- Condition handling services
- COBOL II Recap: COBOL/370 and intrinsic functions; new releases of COBOL
- Inter Language Comunication
- Assembler concerns
- Preinitialization services (PIPI)
- Date and time services and the Year 2000 problem
- LE Math services
- LE international services and locales
- LE CICS, IMS, and nested enclave concerns
- Millennium Language Extensions (MLE)
- Exercises
- There are eight hands-on exercises, all based on a single case study. There are an additional three exercises for COBOL programmers. The exercises are designed to be solved using COBOL or PL/I or Assembler or C; there are starter programs supplied in all four languages.