The book is the first edition of the book. The book is carefully designed to suit both new and experienced programmers who want first hand experience of COBOL programming.

It is designed to make you familiar with structural programming. Structural design is the basis of COBOL programming.

First few chapters will introduce you with the core concepts. Once you become familiar then the book brings you a lots of advanced topics.

The book has up to date topics and latest concepts based on Enterprise COBOL 6.2. The book covers modern topics:

RECURSIVE programming

DLL programming

Programming using Language Environment.

Handling JSON and XML data.

Interlanguage communication with C and Java.

z/OS JSON Parser toolkit for parsing JSON data

XML Toolkit for z/OS toolkit for parsing XML data

JZOS Batch Launcher and Toolkit for running Java program in mainframe batch environment

If you want to know what Enterprise COBOL can offer, then this book is a must read book. The book will open a new door for COBOL programming. Enterprise COBOL can work with same capabilities with other high level languages.

The book has over 200 full examples. All the topics have enough examples to make you familiar with the concept. All the programmes are executed in IBM mainframe. However knowledge learned in this book can be used with other variants of COBOL.