Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites: Understanding of COBOL and Windows

Net Express is a leading COBOL development platform for the Windows platform. Net Express provides COBOL developers with a rich toolset allowing them to develop and implement batch COBOL, web-based and GUI-based applications for both Windows and UNIX platforms.

The Net Express - IDE course focuses on the "basics" of using Net Express to develop and maintain COBOL applications. During this class attendees learn how to ...

  • Understand the Net Express desktop
    • Navigate the Net Express IDE
    • Customizing the desktop
    • Net Express' help
    • Net Express' documentation
  • Create and maintain Net Express Projects
  • Edit COBOL source programs
    • Find/Replace text
    • Set Editor defaults
    • Create and maintain COBOL copyfiles
  • Create executables for debugging using the Net Express Animator
    • Compile single programs
    • Build projects
    • View and correct compile errors
    • Control the compile process using compiler directives
    • Create and modify Build Types
  • Effectively use the Net Express Animator, an interactive source-level debugger, to test COBOL programs and applications
    • Set Animator defaults
    • Execute code effectively
    • Examine data item values
      • Monitor data item values during execution
      • Change data item values to support "what if" testing
      • Examine group/table data items
    • Set breakpoints to maximize execution speed
    • Animate multi-program applications
    • Allocate data files
  • Perform program/project analysis
    • Analyze data and procedure items in a COBOL program
    • Identify dead and unreferenced data items, unreferenced procedures and other relevant information about a COBOL program
    • Analyze data and procedure items across project components
  • Create executables for production and distribution
    • Release Build
      • Packaging application components into .exe/.dll modules
      • Control the link process
    • Run time system
  • Use the Net Express OpenESQL option to generate, test and embed SQL statements into a COBOL program
    • Create SQL queries
    • Test queries
    • Embed SQL commands and queries into COBOL source programs
    • Set SQL project directives
    • Compile and test COBOL programs containing embedded SQL
  • Integrate Net Express for UNIX platform development
    • Import UNIX applications into Net Express
    • Publish Net Express applications to UNIX
  • Effectively use Net Express's data tools to support the development environment
    • Data File Editor
    • Data File Convert Utility