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[UtadaBarkley]

I'm trying to learn it more in-depth. What are some good resources/tips/etc?

I wanna learn it because it's used a lot where I work. I'm using work as a resource obviously, but would like to study/work outside of work.

 

[Oni Link 666]

I took a couple of semesters of COBOL. :lol Man, it sucked. Can you even use it without a dinosaur mainframe?

 

[UtadaBarkley]

I think there may be some terminal emulators that you can practice on. But that's what we have here where I work. (Mainframes)

 

[Spike]

COBOL. Haha. I used to do alot of coding for it about 10 years ago. I haven't used it for so long, I've forgotten alot of it.

http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/

 

[Ristamar]

I had two take a few courses of it when I was in college. It's rather crude, but simple. Running that shit on a JCL mainframe sucked ass, though... ugh.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

COBOL. Haha. I used to do alot of coding for it about 10 years ago. I haven't used it for so long, I've forgotten alot of it.

http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/

Great resource, thanks... Yes.. well, they use it a LOT at my job. I thought that I might as well learn it ya know? I know it's really simple and outdated, but it's just another thing I can throw on my resume. My main question is, how can I run these programs on my Windows box at home? Obviously I don't have a mainframe there to run them on.

 

[Ristamar]

You can run COBOL programs on a regular machine. A JCL mainframe is only needed to execute the JCL code (or whatever code/mainframe they're using).

 

[UtadaBarkley]

You can run COBOL programs on a regular machine. A JCL mainframe is only needed to execute the JCL code (or whatever code/mainframe they're using).

That's what we have here... I know JCL is job control language, but is that actually the code? What exactly is JCL? That can't be the code because COBAL is the code, right?

 

[Phoenix]

COBOL, COBOL, COBOL

 

[UtadaBarkley]

COBOL, COBOL, COBOL

Rookie mistake... Heh...I'm just now learning.

 

[Ristamar]

What exactly is JCL? That can't be the code because COBAL is the code, right?

The JCL scripting language is a seperate entity and basically tells the mainframe how the other code (COBOL) is supposed to be executed. Most JCL statements start with '//' (without the quotes), so it should be easily identifiable.

 

[The Bookerman]

I hated cobol cause the compiler we had was pretty bad and that SPACING is very important(like not starting a line of code before the 7th(?) space of the line)

Living hell. Depends on what kind compiler you're working too? a fujiitsu compiler?
Anyway, cobol is old... and boring.