mca Syllabus

Business Information System
IT 802B
Contact: 3L
Credit: 3
Allotted Hrs: 39L

Introduction [6L]: Introduction to BIS and Mainframe Computer, Hardware configuration, 360/370 family: Processor, Multiprogramming, Channels, Input-Output device, Application, Characteristics of Mainframe Operating System: Batch processing, Virtual Storage, Spooling, Timesharing,
Multiprogramming, Mainframe configuration : Small Mainframe configuration , 3090 configuration
COBOL Programming [10L]: Organization & Structure of COBOL program, Coding format, Identification and Environment Division- Configuration section, Input-Output section, Data Division- File section, Working storage section, Usage clause, synchronized clause, justified clause, redefines clause, renames clause, sign clause. Procedure Division- Structure of procedure division, data movement, arithmetic, sequence control, input output & conditional verbs. Table Handling- OCCURS clause and subscripting, multidimensional table, Perform, Set, Search verbs, index table and indexing, sorting a table. Structure of COBOL subroutines; Calling Subroutines, State of subroutines and CANCEL statement.
COBOL Files [8L]: Sequential file characteristics, File-control entries, File description –Fixed length record, Statements for sequential files, Sequential files with variable length record, Features for unit record files, special features for magnetic-tape files, I-O-CONTROL paragraph. Sort & merge verbs, File updating, Same sort area clause, Memory size clause; Direct Access Files- Relative files, Indexed sequential files; Creating reports.
Job Control Language (JCL) [7L]: Introduction to JCL : Mainframe information representation & Storage , Sequential data set , Partition data Set , Index file , Structure of JCL , JOB statement, EXEC statement, DD statement, Procedures & symbolic parameters, Compile – Link – Execute JCL, IBM utility: IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEHPROGM, IEBCOMPR .

VSAM [2L]: Introduction to VSAM, AMS, Defining & loading KSDS, ESDS, RRDS.
An Overview of DB2 [6L]: Introduction, Environment, Major components of DB2, DBRM, BIND, PLANS, DB2 internals: DB2 objects, optimizers, DB2 catalog & directory, Data locking.

Books:

1. COBOL programming; M.K Roy,D Ghosh dastidar; TMH.
2. IBM Mainframe and JCL; Alex Leon; TMH.
3. Information Systems through COBOL; Phillipakis and Kazmier, TMH.
4. Cobol for beginners, Thomas Worth, EEE.