Unicon :: LOUISII and/or BETTERII Skills Development Training

COURSE: TBW-350

SYSTEM: BULL

DURATION: 20 hours of instructor guided training delivered onsite or via the Web

PREREQUISITE: Attendees should have a basic understanding of data processing programming concepts and have mastered programming basic LOUISII techniques. Attendees should also have experience programming in third-generation (COBOL, C, etc.) and/or fourth-generation (ORACLE, SQL, etc.) language. Students should be familiar with a BULL text editor and file naming conventions.

OBJECTIVES: Expose the student to the advanced concepts of LOUISII and/or BETTERII. This is accomplished through lecture and workshops.

TOPICS:

Modifying and customizing Q-Refs for clients and self. Includes explanation of privileged commands.
Installation of database pointers (hard and soft keys) to efficiently navigate through an IDS-II database without jeopardizing the database integrity.
Processing LOUISII recap files.
Accepting arguments (user supplied values) into LOUISII queries by integrating CRUN commands with LOUISII commands.
Building menu driven queries by incorporating TEX with LOUISII.
Processing multiple record types within a sequential file.
Simulating IF-THEN-ELSE logic in LOUISII queries.
Using LOUISII as a file update.