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EVERYTHING IS USEFUL WHAT YOU LEARNED. I WORKED WITH BATCH COBOL AND LEARNED COBOL PROGRAMMING BEFORE I WORKED ON CICS ONLINE DB/DC PROGRAMMING. I TOOK COBOL THEN I TOOK ASSEMBLER. ASSEMBLER IS USED FOR SYSTEM PROGRAMMING. WE USED ASSEMBLER MACRO IN CICS. THE 4 BYTES CICS TRANSACTION CODES NEED TO BE DEFINE IN THE TABLE. YOU NEED TO CODE PCT, FCT, PPT ETC AND THE REGION IN CICS NEED TO BE DEFINE IN WHICH REGION. YOU CAN USE CICS WITH VSAM - KSDS FILE OR USING DLI OR DB2 ( SQL ). EXEC CICS WILL BE CONVERTED TO CALL IN THE COBOL STATEMENT. EXEC DLI FOR IMS DB EXEC SQL FOR IBM DB2 DATABASE ACCESS. THE CICS I WORKED ON IS MVS AND DOS/VSE ON IBM 370/390/ZOS. HOW DO THEY RATED YOU IF YOU WORK WITH CICS IN THE 70s? everyone wanted to work with CICS because not everyone know CICS if they worked with BATCH. I BECAME A CONSULTANT AFTER I LEARNED CICS. I JUST BOUGHT A BOOK AND LEARNED CICS AND WORKED. B4 I WORKED IN PROGRAMMING I WAS A CICS DATA ENTRY OPERATOR AT METROPOLITAN LIFE AND DELTA DENTAL. I GOT MY PROMOTION TO PROGRAMMER AT DELTA DENTAL TO LEARN COBOL BATCH THEN I JOINED RAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. TO DEVELOP SOFTWARE PACKAGE USING CICS AND IMS/DB/DC AND DLI. I GRADUATED FROM RAND UNIVERSITY ON THE CICS AND IMS TRAINING THEY OFFERED TO ME FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN MRP - NO ERP YET UNTIL SAP...:-) WE ARE USING COBOL SKELETON THAT HAS BEEN GENERATED AND ALL YOU NEED IS TO MODIFY THE LOGIC AND SET ATTRIBUTES DEPENDING ON THE RESULTS SUCH AS UNPROTECTED FOR ENTERABLE FIELDS. PROTECTED FOR UNENTERABLE FIELDS AND HIGH LIGHT FOR THE ERROR FIELD AND PUT THE -1 TO LENGTH OF THAT FIELD FOR CURSOR POSITION. ISSUES ERROR MESSAGE BY MOVING THE ERROR MESSAGE NUMBER TO THE ERROR MESSAGE FIELD ON THE SCREEN. FOR THE DATABASE WE CAN TRAVERSE TO BROWSE THE HIERARCHY OF THE DATABASE OR HOLD AND UPDATE THE DATABASE OR DELETE THE DATABASE. I DID THIS IN THE 70s WHEN I WAS AT RAND AND I LEARNED FROM THEM.

I should have learned Cobol.

WHY I LEARNED COBOL? IT'S THE HOSTTEST COMMODITY IN THE 70s. IT'S COBOL THAT LET ME HIRED AT STATE FUND 40 YEARS AGO. I APPLIED FOR THE COBOL POSITION AS STAFF PROGRAMMER/ANALYST AND I GOT THE OFFER AND WORKED ON COBOL-II CONVERSION PROJECT AND EPAYROLL AS PROJECT MANAGER THE SAME TIME. I WORKED WITH PL/I AT UCSF AND COBOL TOO. I WORKED WITH RPG-II AT GLOBAL ASSOCIATES IN OAKLAND AFTER I TOOK THE CLASS. I ALSO WORKED WITH ASSEMBLER MACRO FOR CICS, IMS AND DB2. I WORKED WITH ADPAC PROGRAMMING SIMILAR TO ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE. YOU WILL NEVER RAN OUT OF JOBS IF YOU KNEW COBOL I TOLD MYSELF...:-) I ASKED MYSELF A QUESTION WHEN I START TO WORK WITH COBOL. WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE THAT THE COMPUTER SPEAKS UNTIL I RETIRED? LEARNING COBOL IS LIKE LEARNING ENGLISH. YOU WILL NOT GET ENGLISH OBSOLETE EVEN IN THE NEXT CIVILIZATIONS. YOU WILL NEVER FIND AN ARTIFACT CALLED COBOL IN OUR CIVILIZATIONS. COBOL IS EASY TO ME BECAUSE MY BACKGROUND IS ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL ...:-)

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WHAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE DO YOU NEED? JUST LOOK AT THE JOB REQUIREMENT AND LEARN WHATEVER EXPERIENCE THEY NEED THE MOST. IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEWSPAPER IN THE 70s IT'S FULL OF CLERK/TYPIST POSITION. SO YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO HAVE CLERK/TYPIST EXPERIENCE FOR YOU TO GET A JOB. IN THE 80s, YOU NEED TO HAVE COMPUTER SKILLS TO GET A JOB. THEY HAVE DATA ENTRY OPERATOR POSITIONS AND KEYPUNCH OPERATOR. SO YOU NEED TO HAVE THOSE EXPERIENCES. HOW DO YOU GET THE EXPERIENCE? YOU NEED TO GET A JOB WITH SUCH EXPERIENCE. I FOUND LOST OF PROGRAMMER POSITION IN THE 80s. NOW YOU KNOW WHY I NEED CICS EXPERIENCE EVEN IT'S NOT TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL. THEY ONLY TAUGHT COBOL IN SCHOOL. YOU CAN ONLY GET THE CICS EXPERIENCE BY WORKING ON THE PROJECT. NOW, YOU KNOW WHY I WORKED WIT DB2 PROJECTS. YOU MIGHT HAVE LOT OF COBOL EXPERIENCE. WHEN I APPLIED AT RAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC AS MY SECOND JOB IN COMPUTER BECAUSE I WAS A CICS OPERATOR AND I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH CICS AS END USER. I UNDERSTAND HOW CICS WORK THAT'S WHY THEY LET ME DESIGN THE CICS SCREENS AND PROGRAM IN CICS. CICS IS THE TOP SKILL FOR ON-LINE PROGRAMMING AND IF YOU KNOW COBOL YOU CAN LEARN CICS I TOLD MYSELF AND I GOT A BOOK. I WENT TO STACEY'S BOOKSTORE BUT THE BOOK SOLD OUT. I ASKED MY FRIEND SOLD HIS BOOK TO ME. THERE IS ONLY ONE CICS BOOK AND IT'S SO DEMANDING AND EVERYONE WANTED TO LEARN CICS. IF YOU KNOW CICS YOU CAN BECOME CONSULTANT.

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On my way to becoming a COBOL guru.

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🔍 Enhance Your COBOL Expertise: Advanced Nested If Conditions 💼 We are pleased to present our upcoming session on Nested If Conditions in COBOL. This advanced tutorial is designed for professionals seeking to refine their expertise in implementing complex decision-making logic within COBOL programs. Key Takeaways: Comprehensive understanding of nested If condition syntax and structure Effective strategies for managing multi-layered conditional logic Practical examples demonstrating real-world applications and solutions Join us to deepen your knowledge and elevate your COBOL programming skills. This session is an invaluable opportunity to tackle intricate programming scenarios with precision and efficiency. https://lnkd.in/gvQNK7rE [Session-15 | Language-Hindi ]   #TechSharmit #Sharmit #IBMChampionAmitSharma #IBMChampion #ibmi #ibm #Advocacy #cobol #ibmi #as400 #iseries #CobolProgramming #CobolLanguage #CobolCommunity  #IBMRisingChampions #IBMTechXchange #hkhhm