Using Rational Developer for System z Version 7.1 to work with COBOL programs

This tutorial shows traditional application developers how to use IBM Rational Developer for System z to significantly increase their productivity and efficiency when creating and maintaining traditional mainframe applications. You download and then use example code, which uses CICS, VSAM, and DB2, in a variety of typical development scenarios including syntax checking and compiling. The techniques are illustrated using COBOL applications; however, similar steps can be used by PL/I programmers.