Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites: Understanding of COBOL and UNIX

Server Express is a leading COBOL development platform for most UNIX platforms. Server Express provides COBOL developers with a fully integrated and functionally rich toolset allowing them to develop and implement COBOL applications for UNIX platforms.

During this class attendees learn how to ...

• Understand the Server Express development environment
  • Function key based menu system
  • Key mapping
  • Server Express' help
  • server Express' documentation
• Edit COBOL source programs
  • Basic editor functions
  • Library function
  • Find/Replace text
  • Text Block (similar to cut/copy/paste) functions
  • Working with multiple windows
  • Create and maintain COBOL copyfiles
• Create executables for debugging
  • Compile programs
  • View and correct compile errors
  • Control the compile process using compiler directives
• Effectively use the Server Express Animator, an interactive source-level debugger, to test COBOL programs and applications
  • 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 analysis using CSI (COBOL Source Information)
  • 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
• Run COBOL programs
• Generate executables and UNIX object code for production and distribution
  • Micro Focus .int/.gnt executables
• Create native UNIX executables
  • Use the COB command to generate applications
• Run time system
• Effectively use Server Express's data tools to support the development environment
  • Data File Editor
  • Data File Convert Utility