This project is a set of training materials and labs for an Advanced Topics course on COBOL. Free and publicly available client tooling is used to interact with the mainframe environment allowing participants to easily leverage these technologies after the course.
To begin, select a recent release of the course. Under a given release, you should see two assets.
- The COBOL Programming Course #3 - Advanced Topics PDF asset contains the course instructions.
- The Source code asset contains everything that was in the project when the release was published.
To complete the course, you will also need to do one of the following:
- Select a provider below and follow their registration process. Once complete, you should be given system details to use in the course.
- Upload the source code for the course (located in the Labs folder) to your mainframe environment.
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out on our slack channel.
These materials are being used by other organizations to provide COBOL training to the community. Neither this project nor Open Mainframe Project reviews, maintains, or endorses any one of these particular providers. If you are using these materials in your training materials, feel free to edit and issue a pull request to have it included.
- IBM has provided a free environment for completing this lab.
A PDF can be built using the following pandoc command. Note: pdflatex is required. MiKTeX can be installed to accommodate this. Prior to issuing the following command, all subscript and superscript notation must be changed. Find all instances of <sub> and </sub> and replace them with ~. Find all instances of <sup> and </sup> and replace them with ^. This is the notation required for pandoc but this would make it difficult to read the markdown in GitHub.
pandoc "COBOL Programming Course #3 - Advanced Topics.md" -o "COBOL Programming Course #3 - Advanced Topics.pdf" --number-sections --toc -B Front_Matter.tex --listings