Specifications for COBOL copiers for a C # programmer

Question

I am working on an application that requires me to create a COBOL tutorial to define a data file.

Does anyone have a good recommendation on how to write a notebook?

Answer 1

The "copy book" basically COBOL says for the include file. You need to write a description of your data in COBOL format. Here is the tutorial . Here are some other good articles.

Answer 2

First, to clarify, I assume that you are not requesting a syntax that is just COBOL code lines from the DATA DIVISION or PROCEDURE DIVISION section.

So what is the way to format a file layout? You must admit that this is a very low level data modeling. Therefore, you need to understand how your data looks. You can research various data modeling techniques, but I suggest starting with what you know. If you know how to model a database table, design it the same way as the table. Then convert to file format.

This will probably mean that you have several objects to simulate. Then you can decide that you really need several files, or you can leave with combining two records into a long file (smoothing) or create “auxiliary” records with REDEFINES and a kind of dispersion key to tell you what type of data is in this records.