YOUR NAME- Brian Rich
YOUR EMAIL ID- ba_rich@outlook.com
YOUR COUNTRY- USA
YOUR PREFERRED TIMING- 7pm to 8pm India Time
Thank you so much for offering the refresher course. It is very much appreciated!
Thanks copied. PLease see your mail box. The course starts from tomorrow,
Hi Kapitan,
I would like to join your training.
My Name - Xavier Borrell
emai ID - vuillaume12@yahoo.com
Country - France
Preferred time to attend - 7pm to 8pm (India time)
Thank you so much.
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the office of ECG IT.
I take pride in talking to you as you volunteer to learn Cobol with me.
My name is Captain Uday Prasad, consulting partner and Subject Matter Experience on SMART_ SEAPORTS. I prefer to prefix my name with “Captain”, as it reminds me of my younger days, when I used to sail around the world as a Merchant Navy Officer. I left shipping and did software engineering, specializing on the IBM MAINFRAME as an application programmer, in the year 1998/99. My first job as a Cobol coder started from IBM in India followed by tier 1 companies like Tech Mahindra and others. I have worked in various countries like USA, Canada, Philippines during my last 20 years of exposure to the IT world. I am now a freelancer and run my own IT consultancy services as a solution Architect
During my entire career, I was mostly involved on medium to large mainframe projects using Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2 on TSO/ISPF. However, I am now well versed in dealing with technologies like BIGDATA, DATA ANAYTICS and BLOCKCHAIN as well.
During the current state of affairs, when the world is sinking with the unknown fear of COVID-19 pandemic, I look forward to help those who need experienced COBOL programmer to respond to public needs. I feel comfortable that I am not alone and have someone like you to support. This training course is free for any and everyone to join-in, so that we can make a difference in the world.
I have divided this course into basic / fundamentals and advanced Cobol programming. The Course contains on several lectures. Therefore, it will be updated till the completion of COBOL programming language.
You will learn the following from this course-
- Execute COBOL Program with confidence
- Build a strong knowledge base on COBOL from Scratch to Advanced level
- Redesign and code a Particular program in multiple ways
- Develop COBOL Programs along the way as you take the program
- Advance, boost and expand the skill set on COBOL if you have a fair understanding of COBOL
You must log in into my sessions as follows –
When: Apr 24, 2020 every day 07:00 PM India time. (GMT +13.30)
Register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Note 1- The above message has been sent on email to all who had registered their name and email. Please confirm the receipt.
so far I have received response from the following -
Praveen
Alfonso Arias
Susan Fischer
Rick Mercadante
Gaetano D’Orsi
Patrick Terrelonge
Emiliano Fernandez
karan Minhas
Rajesh Sinha
Xavier Borrell
Steve Gabriel
ponchito24
Madeline Villasante
Will
pavan
Paula Barkan
Brian Rich
Julie Harrington
Note -2 : I still need email ids of the following
Steve Gabriel
Ponchito 24
Pavan
Hi,
Is the best way to reach you for some help? I was able to download OpenCobolIDE.4.7.3. I could not get OpenCobolIDE.4.7.4 to download. Is that a problem? If I can use version 4.7.3 can you walk me through what happens next.
Here are screenshots of what I saw after downloading version 4.7.3
Not sure where to find the programs that you were working with or what to do once I find them.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Sorry to have caused a delay in the class.
Thanks,
Paula
paulabarkan@gmail.com
Hi Paula,
I have tried to change my location folder and it works for me when I create a new file.
The mac version is a bit different then others OS.
Attending Mr Kapitan for more light descriptions
Gaetano.
Great session today.
Hi Gaetano,
Thanks for trying to help me out. I’d like to try what you suggested. Which version were you able to download. I was unable to download 4.7.4. Are you working with that version or version 4.7.3? What did you change your location folder to? When you say it works when you create a new file, does that mean you couldn’t access the project COBOL programs?
I totally missed what the class was doing while working on the download. If I am able to create my own file and copy a sample COBOL program, what is the next step?
I very much appreciate your willingness to help me get up to speed, thank you!
Hi Paula,
after looking for a solution for install the last version of OpenCobol, I have found this link that explain how install the last version of IDE from source.
https://consulting-bolte.de/index.php/tech-blog/cobol/184-install-cobol-on-macos-x
Follow the instructions and run the program from command line, it works fine with my macOS version (10.14.6 Mojave)
Gaetano.
Thank you again so much.
Could you share with us the slides and video of the course?
Dear everyone,
Thanks for your time to for participating into my cobol class session 1. It was heartening to see your overwhelming response. I am sure that we will make a very good team in making a difference as we go ahead. Looking forward to meet you guys tomorrow same time same way.
Meanwhile please go though this small movie on COBOL and COVID19.
Hope you like it.
Note - For those who missed out on the first session today. Please do make sure that you have logged in tomorrow, so that we can cover quickly and bring you with the class. Today being the first session, we did not go very deep.
Paula et all,
Request give me some time and will egt you on the instructions on how to load the cobol compiler on the MAC
Steve Gabriel,
Thanks, Missed you today. Got your email and sending you the invite for tomorrows session.
With Regards
Kapitan
Join my classes on Cobol for free.
You can MASTER COBOL without any hassles.
Send me your email id and i will send you the invite.
Regards
Kapitan
April 24Hi Paula,
after looking for a solution for install the last version of OpenCobol, I have found this link that explain how install the last version of IDE from source.
https://consulting-bolte.de/index.php/tech-blog/cobol/184-install-cobol-on-macos-x
Follow the instructions and run the program from command line, it works fine with my macOS version (10.14.6 Mojave)
Gaetano.
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April 24Hi Gaetano, Thanks for trying to help me out. I’d like to try what you suggested. Which version were you able to download. I was unable to download 4.7.4. Are you working with that version or version 4.7.3? What did you change your location folder to? When you say it works when you create a new fil…
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Thanks for sending along that link. I followed the instructions, everything executed as written received the following message
Running setup.py install for OpenCobolIDE … done
Successfully installed OpenCobolIDE-4.7.6
but when I tried to run the program I received a bunch of Python related error messages.
I was able to download an older release of OpenCobolIDE 4.6.6 and execute the sample programs so I think that may have to do for now. Thanks for all your help!
Ok good but If you want the 4.7.6 version try to reinstall pyqt5 with these commands:
brew reinstall pyqt5 (if you already installed) or brew install pyqt5
Gaetano.
I had tried that a number of times without success. It occurred to me that the problem might be related to python3. Googled it and found this command: python3 -m pip install PyQt5. That seemed to do the trick,
Thanks a bunch!!!
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Thanks, Kapitan!
I’m assuming I missed the first lesson, since I sent my email address so late. 
Questions:
- How long is each session?
2)I have my mainframeID and password and VSCode with COBOL and Zowe. How do I get into the mainframe? - Is there anything else I need?
Thanks,
Steve
I would like to join your training.
My Name -Abirami Jayachandran
emai ID -abirami.jayachandran@gmail.com
Country -India,Chennai
Preferred time to attend - 7pm to 8pm (India time)
Intro about me
have worked largely in Cobol ,jcl,IDMS /ADSO and to little extent in Db2 ,cics. Took a break of 8 years due to family reasons . Now wanted to refresh my knowledge so that i can support atleast remotely