{ "item_title" : "Legacy Languages", "item_author" : [" Gabriel F. Gargiulo "], "item_description" : "COBOL may be a legacy language, but it's not dead. There are huge numbers of programs written in COBOL that are still running, and running well.There is no need to rewrite them in another language, since they are working! This book contains generic programs that illustrate major types of logic used in many business programs.It's not a book about COBOL syntax. It's the sequence of instructions that accomplish the task at hand.The programs are structured in a top-down kind of logic. The flow of control begins at the beginning, and continues in one direction only, down, using subroutine calls (PERFORM, or CALL) to execute procedures, and then return to the major path of program execution flow.There is such a thing as a Spaghetti program, in which the flow of control goes up, down, outside of the current procedure, and anywhere you can imagine. I remember those programs. They were very hard to follow and harder still to maintain. There is no logical method to analyze those programs and to understand them.This book contains logic structures that are simple and easy to understand. I used these logic structures during much of the time when I was programming.They were tested during October 2020 on an IBM mainframe computer running z/OS and Enterprise COBOL.Here are the programs: 1. SEQSIMP1. The Simple, Single File Program2. SEQRPT1. The Simple, Single File Report Program3. SEQRPT2. The Simple, Single File Report Program with Record Count or Final Totals4. SEQCK1. The Sequence Check Program5. SELECT1. The Record Selection Program6. VALID1. The Edit or Validate Program7. BRKLV1. The One Level Subtotal (Control Break) Program8. BRKLV3. The Three Level Subtotal (Control Break) Program9. FILEUPD1. The Sequential File, Batch Update Program10. SORTEX1. The COBOL Sort11. EVAL1. The CASE Structure: EVALUATE12. DIRSUB1. Direct Subscripting13. SERSRCH1. The Sequential Search14. BINSRCH1. The Binary Search15. LOADTBL1. Loading a Table from a Sequential File16. VSAMSEQ1. The VSAM File Read Sequentially17. VSAMRND1. The VSAM KSDS, Read Randomly18. VSAMRND2. The VSAM File, Read Randomly Based on Records in a Regular Sequential File19. VSAMLOD1. VSAM Initial Load20. VSAMACD1. VSAM File Maintenance (Add, Change, Delete)21. VSAMSTR1. VSAM Read Sequentially, with START22. VARWRIT1. Creating a Variable Format File23. VARREAD1. Reading a Variable Format File24. VARODOW1. Creating a Variable Format File with Occurs Depending On25. VARODOR1. Reading a Variable Format File with Occurs Depending On26. LOADODO1. The Table Load with Occurs Depending On27. VSAM Error Codes", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/869/408/9798694086097_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.49", "online_price" : "13.49", "our_price" : "13.49", "club_price" : "13.49", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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