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Tables of Contents for Structured Cobol Programming, Year 2000 Update
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Unit I The Basics
An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL
2
33
The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONs
35
23
The DATA DIVISION
58
42
Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION
100
30
Unit II Designing Structured Programs
Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs
130
53
Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively
183
57
Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions
240
41
Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements
281
41
Iteration: Beyond the Basic PERFORM
322
38
Unit III Writing High-Level COBOL Programs
Control Break Processing
360
47
Data Validation
407
30
Array Processing and Table Handling
437
83
Unit IV File Maintenance
Sequential File Processing
520
40
Sorting and Merging
560
37
Indexed and Relative File Processing
597
53
Unit V Advanced Topics
Improving Program Performance Using the COPY, CALL, and Other Statements
650
25
The Report Writer Module
675
28
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
703
Appendixes
A COBOL Character Set and Reserved Words
A-2
B Data Set for Programming Assignment 2 in Each Chapter
A-7
C Differences Among the COBOL Standards
A-9
D COBOL for the AS/400
A-13
E Glossary
A-29
Index
I-1