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The University Edition of Net Express 4.0 is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that you can use for developing COBOL programs on your own PC. To help you get the most from this IDE, this document provides exercises that are carefully coordinated with the first 16 chapters of Murach’s Mainframe COBOL and especially designed for use with Net Express 4.0. Our goal is to help you learn more quickly and easily than you can with any other training package. Before you start these exercises, you should read unit 1 of the Net Express 4.0 Tutorial that we’ve developed. And before you start the exercises for chapter 13, you should read unit 2. As you do the exercises, you’ll be reminded of these reading recommendations.

This document shows you how to develop COBOL programs using the University Edition of Net Express 4.0. Net Express is a relatively inexpensive tool that you can use to learn COBOL on your own PC. So even if you’re using a different compiler on the job or in your school lab, you may want to get a copy of Net Express so you can practice on your own PC. This document is designed as a supplement to our book, Murach’s Mainframe COBOL, which teaches you everything you need to know to develop COBOL programs on an IBM mainframe. This document is divided into two units. In unit 1, you’ll learn how to use Net Express to edit, compile, test, and debug COBOL programs. And in unit 2, you’ll learn how to use Net Express to develop COBOL programs that work with files. When you complete this tutorial, you’ll be able to develop programs on your own PC using that compiler.

The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is distributed on an “as is” basis without any warranty either express or implied. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customer responsibility and depends on the customer's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customer's operational environment. While each item may have been reviewed by IBM for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results will result elsewhere. Customers attempting to adapt these techniques to their own environments do so at their own risk.