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This project is a set of training materials and labs for an Advanced Topics course on COBOL. Free and publicly available client tooling is used to interact with the mainframe environment allowing participants to easily leverage these technologies after the course.
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## How to get started
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There are currently no official releases of COBOL Programming Course #2 - Advanced Topics. All content remains in development. We encourage you to view and contribute to the [book](COBOL%20Programming%20Course%20#2%20-%20Advanced%20Topics.md) :)
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If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out on our [slack channel](https://openmainframeproject.slack.com/archives/C011NE32Z1T).
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## Providers
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These materials are being used by other organizations to provide COBOL training to the community. Neither this project nor Open Mainframe Project reviews, maintains, or endorses any one of these particular providers. If you are using these materials in your training materials, feel free [to edit and issue a pull request](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course/edit/governance-docs/README.md) to have it included.
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- IBM has provided a [free environment for completing this lab](http://ibm.biz/cobollabs).
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## Build
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A PDF can be built using the following [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) command. Note: pdflatex is required. [MiKTeX](https://miktex.org/) can be installed to accomodate this.
This project is a set of training materials and labs for testing COBOL applications on z/OS. Free and publicly available client tooling is used to interact with the mainframe environment allowing participants to easily leverage these technologies after the course.
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## How to get started
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There are currently no official releases of COBOL Programming Course #3 - Testing. All content remains in development. We encourage you to view and contribute to the [book](COBOL%20Programming%20Course%20#3%20-%20Testing.md) :)
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If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out on our [slack channel](https://openmainframeproject.slack.com/archives/C011NE32Z1T).
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## Providers
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These materials are being used by other organizations to provide COBOL training to the community. Neither this project nor Open Mainframe Project reviews, maintains, or endorses any one of these particular providers. If you are using these materials in your training materials, feel free [to edit and issue a pull request](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course/edit/governance-docs/README.md) to have it included.
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- IBM has provided a [free environment for completing this lab](http://ibm.biz/cobollabs).
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## Build
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A PDF can be built using the following [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) command. Note: pdflatex is required. [MiKTeX](https://miktex.org/) can be installed to accomodate this.
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# COBOL Programming Course
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This project is a set of training materials and labs for COBOL on z/OS.
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This project is a set of training materials and labs for COBOL on z/OS. The following books are available within this repository. To get started, follow the steps in their respective READMEs.
If you run into any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out on our [slack channel](https://openmainframeproject.slack.com/archives/C011NE32Z1T).
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-['COBOL technical questions' category on Open Mainframe Project Community Forums](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/c/cobol-technical-questions/16)
These materials are being used by other organizations to provide COBOL training to the community. This project, nor Open Mainframe Project, doesn't review, maintain, or endorse any one of these particular providers. If you are using these materials in your training materials, feel free [to edit and issue a pull request](https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course/edit/governance-docs/README.md) to have it included.
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- IBM has provided a [free environment for completing the labs](http://ibm.biz/cobollabs).
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- IBM has provided a [free trial to IDz environment](https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/products/ibm-z-open-development).
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The PDF is built using the following [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) command. Note: pdflatex is required. [MiKTeX](https://miktex.org/) can be installed to accomodate this.
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pandoc "COBOL Programming with VSCode.md" -o "COBOL Programming with VSCode.pdf" --number-sections --toc -B Front_Matter.tex --listings
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`Front_Matter.tex` contains the content before the table of contents. `COBOL Programming with VSCode.md` contains the body. The command combines the two, generates the section numbers and table of contents for the body, and outputs `COBOL Programming with VSCode.pdf`
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## Contributing
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Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
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