Appendix A Sample Programs

The sample programs shipped with NetCOBOL are intended to give an overview of the capabilities of NetCOBOL and COBOL Project Manager. Refer to the “NetCOBOL User’s Guide” for further details on using NetCOBOL. The following table details the sample programs available with NetCOBOL.

Table A.1 NetCOBOL Sample Programs
Sample	Purpose of sample	Functions Used
Sample01	Data Processing Using Standard Input-Output	ACCEPT/DISPLAY (console window) Debugger
Sample02	Using Line Sequential and Indexed Files	Line sequential file (reference) Indexed file (creation
Sample03	Screen Input-Output Operation Using the Presentation File Function	Sample 3 is not available in the English version of NetCOBOL.
Sample04	Screen Input-Output Using the Screen Section	Screen handling Indexed file (reference)
Sample05	Calling COBOL Subprograms	Inter-program communication Library fetch ACCEPT/DISPLAY (message box) Print file Indexed file (reference) Line sequential file (creation) Passing parameters for execution Free format
Sample06	Receiving a Command Line Argument	Fetching command line arguments Internal program
Sample07	Environment Variable Handling	Environment variable handling
Sample08	Using a Print File	Print file ACCEPT/DISPLAY (console window)
Sample09	Using a Print File (Advanced usage)	Print file (changing print form, letter form, and layout)
Sample10	Using a Print File with FORMAT clause	Sample 10 is not available in the English version of NetCOBOL.
Sample11	Remote database access	Embedded SQL statements (reference)
Sample12	Remote database access (multiple row processing)	Embedded SQL statements (reference, update and delete)
Sample13	Calling COBOL from Visual Basic	Visual Basic COBOL subprograms
Sample14	Visual Basic calling COBOL -Simple ATM Example	Visual Basic COBOL subprograms
Sample15	Basic Object-Oriented Programming	Class definition (encapsulation) object generation method invocation
Sample16	Collection Class (Class Library)	Class definition (encapsulation) object generation method invocation
Sample17	Object-Oriented Cobol (Aggregation, Singleton, and Iteration)	Using Class Library Multiple inheritance polymorphism
Sample18	Advanced Object-Oriented Programming	Using Class Library Multiple inheritance polymorphism
Sample19	Object Persistence (Indexed File)	polymorphism Indexed file
Sample20	Object Persistence (Database)	polymorphism Remote database access (ODBC)
Sample21	Multithread Programming	Multithread programming Index file (creation, reference, update, and rewrite) External data/file Data locking COBOL ISAPI Subroutine
Sample22	Multithread Programming (Advanced usage)	Multithread programming COBOL ISAPI Subroutine Event log (output of user definition information) External data/file Data locking Sharing data between threads
Sample23	COM Program to Control Excel (Late Binding)	COM Client functions (Late binding)
Sample24	COM Program to Control Excel (Early Binding)	COM Client functions (Early binding)
Sample25	Creating a COBOL COM Server Program	COM Server functions Remote Database Access *COM-ARRAY class
Sample26	Using the COM Linkage-COBOL Server Program (COBOL Client)	Using COBOL COM Server COM Client Functions *COM-ARRAY class Screen handling
Sample27	Using the COM Linkage-COBOL Server Program (ASP Client)	Using COBOL COM Server ASP client
Sample28	Transaction Management with COM Linkage-MTS	COM Server functions Object context object(MTS) Remote Database Access *COM-ARRAY class
Sample29	Inter-application Communication Function	Inter-application communication
Sample30	Using UNICODE	Sample 30 is not available in the English version of NetCOBOL.
Sample31	Windows System Function Call	Calling Windows API’s STDCALL calling convention BY VALUE parameters RETURNING phrase of a CALL statement PROGRAM-STATUS special register
Sample32	Starting other programs	Calling Windows API’s STDCALL calling convention STORED-CHARACTER-LENGTH function