COBOL: Large File Organization and Access

Course Objectives:

To solidify and extend practical knowledge and skill in file processing and data management. To measure and adjust the performance of data processing systems.

Sample concerns: How is efficiency measured? What can be done to improve system performance? What concerns are addressed by data encryption, data compression, distributed file systems, intranets, and data mining?

To develop knowledge and experience with data management concerns. For example: security, integrity, accountability, open systems, data compression, applied data structures, data communications and user-friendly information systems. To complete your introduction to Cobol programming. Note that I will allow you to use any programming environment to develop programs, but your Cobol programs must run on IUP's academic VAX/VMS system.