BCA Syllabus – COBOL and Business Applications

1.3  COBOL and Business Applications

First Year          Part III Group A                   First Semester                             Subject Code :  

Unit - 1

Introduction to COBOL – History – Character set – COBOL words – data names and Identifiers – literals – figurative constants – reserved word – coding program – Compute statement – Arithmetic Verb.

Unit - 2

COBOL program structure – IDENTIFICATION, ENVIRONMENT, DATA and PROCEDURE DIVISIONS - picture clause – Editing picture clause – level structure.

Unit - 3

Control statements – Goto – Goto DEPENDING ON OF statements – PERFORM verb – Move statement – Table handling – Single, Two dimensional Array handling – SEARCH verb – Character handling – Inspser verb STRING and UNSTRING verb.

Unit - 4

File Organisation – Indexed, Random Sequential file handling – Sorting and merging a file 0 file updation.

Unit - 5

Computer Application in Business – Computer Applications in project management – Computer Applications in personal and administration – Accounting information system – Computer applications in materials management – Computer Application in production planning and control – Computer Application – Computer Application in credit and collection – Computer Application in warehousing – marketing Information systems – Manufacturing Information system – Computer Application of the future – Multimedia – Computer Application in Science and Technology.

TEXT BOOKS:

       1.  Cobol Programming – M.K.Roy – Tata McGraw Hill Publishers 1997.

1. Computers Today – Suresh K.Basandra Galgotia Publishing Pvt. Ltd.1^st Edition 1997

Chapter 15 (15.1 to 15.14) Complete Chapter