Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites: Understanding of COBOL and Windows

Net Express is a leading COBOL development platform for the Windows platform. Net Express provides COBOL developers with a rich toolset allowing them to develop and implement batch COBOL, web-based and GUI-based applications for both Windows and UNIX platforms.

The Net Express - IDE course focuses on the "basics" of using Net Express to develop and maintain COBOL applications. During this class attendees learn how to ...

• Understand the Net Express desktop
  • Navigate the Net Express IDE
  • Customizing the desktop
  • Net Express' help
  • Net Express' documentation
• Create and maintain Net Express Projects
• Edit COBOL source programs
  • Find/Replace text
  • Set Editor defaults
  • Create and maintain COBOL copyfiles
• Create executables for debugging using the Net Express Animator
  • Compile single programs
  • Build projects
  • View and correct compile errors
  • Control the compile process using compiler directives
  • Create and modify Build Types
• Effectively use the Net Express Animator, an interactive source-level debugger, to test COBOL programs and applications
  • Set Animator defaults
  • Execute code effectively
  • Examine data item values
    • Monitor data item values during execution
    • Change data item values to support "what if" testing
    • Examine group/table data items
  • Set breakpoints to maximize execution speed
  • Animate multi-program applications
  • Allocate data files
• Perform program/project analysis
  • Analyze data and procedure items in a COBOL program
  • Identify dead and unreferenced data items, unreferenced procedures and other relevant information about a COBOL program
  • Analyze data and procedure items across project components
• Create executables for production and distribution
  • Release Build
    • Packaging application components into .exe/.dll modules
    • Control the link process
  • Run time system
• Use the Net Express OpenESQL option to generate, test and embed SQL statements into a COBOL program
  • Create SQL queries
  • Test queries
  • Embed SQL commands and queries into COBOL source programs
  • Set SQL project directives
  • Compile and test COBOL programs containing embedded SQL
• Integrate Net Express for UNIX platform development
  • Import UNIX applications into Net Express
  • Publish Net Express applications to UNIX
• Effectively use Net Express's data tools to support the development environment
  • Data File Editor
  • Data File Convert Utility