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Introduction

1. Introduction to COBOL
2. History, Division, Sections, Margins, Line numbers, Group items
3. Picture Clause, Value Clause, Basic Structure of Cobol Program
4. Statements: ACCEPT, DISPLAY, MOVE, STOP RUN
5. Sample program

Verbs and Statements

1. Arthimetic Verbs(ADD, SUBTRACT, DIVIDE, MULTIPLY, COMPUTE)
2. Looping and Branching. Condition Names
3. IF.... ELSE....END IF, EVALUATE
4. PERFORM STATEMENT
5. PERFORM WITH TIMES, UNTIL, VARYING....AFTER
6. PERFORM WITH END PERFORM

Editing Picture Clause

1. Editing Picture Clause(Z, $, *, DR, CR, S, -, +)
2. ON SIZE ERROR, MOVE CORRESPONDING
3. BLANK WHEN ZERO
4. Character handling Functions(Inspect, String, Unstring etc.)
5. Reference modification, Qualifier

Table Handling

1. OCCURS CLAUSE With 1-D, 2-D, M-D
2. Search Statement
3. REDEFINES CLAUSE, USAGE DISPLAY, COMP ,JUSTIFY, SYNC clause

File Organisation

1. Types of files
2. Function / process of all types of files
3. Modes of files
4. FD-Entry, FILE Status
5. RECORD KEY
6. OPEN, READ, CLOSE statements(with syntax)
7. ample programs for insert and display list of records(using sequential file)

Random Files

1. Sample programs for insert, update and display record

Report Generation

1. COBOL subroutines(Procedure division using, Call.....using, linkage section etc.)
2. Sample of menu driven program