Enterprise COBOL Update II: Unicode and XML Support
- Recommended Duration:
- 1 Day
- Version
- Enterprise COBOL.
- Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to use the Unicode and XML processing capabilities of the IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS compiler. This enables students to build routines to convert Web-originated XML transactions to classic COBOL data structure based transactions and back. This course also provides a survey of new COBOL features as they are introduced for each new release.
- Audience
- Experienced z/OS or OS/390 COBOL application programmers. Students should already be familiar with the LE COBOL compiler family and its capabilities.
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Enterprise COBOL Update I: Essentials or equivalent knowledge/experience is assumed. At the very least, the student entering this course should have a strong programming background in COBOL. The installation must be using the Enterprise COBOL compiler and have Unicode support services activated.
- Major Topics
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- Introduction to Unicode
- National data type
- Intrinsic functions: DISPLAY-OF, NATIONAL-OF
- Introduction to XML
- The XML PARSE statement
- The XML Special registers
- XML Events
- Coding processing procedures
- Extracting character string fields while parsing
- Extracting numeric fields while parsing
- Handling exceptions while parsing
- The XML GENERATE statement
- Exercises
- There are seven hands-on exercises.