Syllabus
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)- Post Graduate Syllabus of MCA, Semester II (From 2006 batch)-Business Data Processing
UNIT-I:
Introduction : Computer Programming - An Overview, The Applications Program Development Process, The Nature of COBOL, Techniques for Improving program Design. The IDENTIFICATION and ENVIRONMENT DIVISIONS : Basic Structure of a COBOL program, Coding Requirements of the Identification Division, The Sections of the Environmentdivision, Assigning files to Devices in the Environment Division.
UNIT-II
The DATA DIVISION : Systems Design considerations, Forming Data-Names, The FILE SECTION of the Data Division, Types of Data, The working-Storage section of the Data division.
Coding Complete COBOL Programs: The PROCEDURE DIVISION, The format of the Procedure division, Statements typically coded in the Main Module of Batch Programs, Statements typically coded for Processing Input records and Producing output records.
UNIT-III
Moving Data, Printing Information, and Displaying Output Interactively, The instruction formats of the MOVE STATEMENT , Numeric MOVE, Nonnumeric or Alphanumeric MOVE, Other Options of the MOVE STATEMENT. PRINTING OUTPUT, Interactive output that is displayed on a screen.
Computing in COBOL: The Arithmetic Verbs and Intrinsic Functions, The Basic Arithmetic Verbs, Options Available with Arithmetic Verbs, The COMPUTE Statement, Use of Signed Numbers in Arithmetic Operations, Improving Program Efficiency with the USAGE Clause.
UNIT-IV
Decision Making Using the IF and EVALUATE Statements, Selection using a simple IF statement, Selection using other Options of the IF statement, CONDITION-NAMES. Iteration : The simple PERFORM, Iteration using other types of PERFORMs, Using NestedPERFORM varying statements.
UNIT-V
Control Break Processing : An introduction to control break processing, Program Requirements for control break processing, Multiple-level control breaks.
Data Validation : Avoiding logic errors by validating input, What to do if input errors occur, When data should be validated, Understanding program interrupts.
UNIT-VI
Single level OCCURS clause, Processing data stored in an array, Using an OCCURS clause for Table Handling, Use of the Search statement for Table and Array processing, Varying option of SEARCH verb
SEARCH ALL statement, Multiple level OCCURS Clause. Systems overview of Sequential processing: Sequential file updating, Validity checking in update procedures, Update procedures with multiple transaction records, Rewriting records on a disk.
UNIT-VII
Sorting and Merging: The SORT features - an overview, Processing data before/after sorting, MERGE statement, Indexed and Relative File Processing : Systems considerations for organizing disk files, Features of magnetic disks and disk drives, Processing indexed disk files, Processing relative Disk Files, Converting a key field to a relative key.
UNIT-VIII
Program performance : The COPY, CALL and other Statements, COPY statement, CALL statement, Text Manipulation with the STRING and UNSTRING STATEMENT.
The Report Writer Module: Introduction, The benefits of the report writer module, The report section in the data division, Procedure division statements.
Text Book :
Cobol Programming – Collopy – Pearson Ed.
Nancy Stern and Robert A.Stern - Structured COBOL programming 8th Ed. - John Wiley & Sons
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