This is code I have created or copied and modified as I progress learning COBOL.

This repository will replace both Cobol-Projects and DB2-COBOL-et-al for all COBOL code.

There are three main areas:

GnuCOBOL: These are programs that were written to use the GnuCOBOL compiler.

Mainframe: These are programs that were written to use the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler.

Zowe: These are scripts that use the Zowe CLI to do stuff on the Mainframe.

There are 3 areas which might be of interest to people just starting out with COBOL.

DB2, Indexed(VSAM) and Internal-Sort. Within each area, there is a collection of basic programs for each type of processing.

However, ALL programs in these areas are the same versions of each other BUT have been modified to run both using GnuCOBOL and the Mainframe.

GnuCOBOL: per the website: GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler.

Mainframe: I have access to 2 Mainframes thanks to IBM providing them, for free, as part of an effort to introduce Mainframe COBOL programming to students.

The two classes I participated and earned badges for were:

Learn to code in COBOL using VSCode program and

Enterprise COBOL for Business Application Programming class.

Zowe: From their site: "Zowe is an open source project created to host technologies that benefit the Z platform". It's an API that allows you to interface with the Mainframe in a couple of different ways. It's kinda neat!

There will be quite a few programs that are the same but with slight modifications for the different environments they will run in.

See README2 for a description of the naming convention I am using for the various tutorals.

See README3 for the list of the tutorials I am working through and how far I have gotten.

See README4 for the list of Enterprise COBOL for Business Application Programming assignments and how far I have gotten.

Note: You may notice a difference betweeen this repository and Cobol-Projects.

I have decided to not write programs for the MVS 3.8 environment. While that was interesting, if I wanted to go back to 1974 (the date of the COBOL compiler on the MVS 3.8(TK4-) system), I could probably find more interesting things to study from that time period.

And I decided to restructure the repo in a different way.