Learning COBOL at home.

[shiv_san]

Hi,

Is there a possibility to learn COBOL at home? Like the way we do it in Mainframes? I know COBOL but there are some experiment which I don't want to do in office. Please advise how can I do that?

[lchui]

Maybe try here? https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education

[Anuj Dhawan]

There are couple of ways to do that - like start with Hercules - however, it'd require to do some background work. Start with some open source COBOL compiler and take it from there.

Have you tried something yourself?

Edit: Had this thread open for long and didn't see the previous reply. That link takes you to a great place to start with, good luck.

[Supriya Pathak]

Maybe try here? https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education

That's a paid course, no?

[Robert Sample]

I have used the GnuCOBOL compiler on my home PC with much success. A program written for the mainframe can be run in GnuCOBOL with minimal changes (mostly SELECT statements and occasionally extensions that IBM has added over the years to the mainframe COBOL).

[shiv_san]

Thank you very much everyone. I've started looking at GnuCOBOL, Thanks again.

[lchui]

Maybe try here? https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education

That's a paid course, no?

No, it is not a paid course. Have you visited the link? It's free material, communities, resources, courses, and many more.

[shiv_san]

I did but left it after navigating through thinking it'd be paid. We'll relook at it again, Thanks again.

[Shruti Yadav]

I have tried using hercules but it's touch to maintain the system itself. Is there a way to keep it stable?