Assembler for COBOL Programmers

	Topic Outline
•	Number Systems
•	Internal Data Representation
•	MVC and Overlapping Storage
•	Decimal Arithmetic
•	Binary Data
•	Base Register, Displacement, and BLL Cell
•	External Subroutines
•	Branch, Link, and Perform

Assembler for COBOL Programmers

3 days

Description

This course teaches the Assembler language by building on the student's understanding of COBOL. Hands-on exercises reinforce the concepts.

Audience

COBOL programmers who want to understand or code Assembler language programs.

Prerequisite

TSO/ISPF, OS/390 JCL, and COBOL programming experience.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

write more efficient COBOL programs based on an in-depth understanding of machine-level processing

understand the basics of Assembler language programming