openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course

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Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL

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Dominant language: COBOL
License: CC-BY-4.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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Changes to README.md's Build section Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#347 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
convert cobolchClaims-img6.gif and cobolchCOV19-img4.gif to .jpg so that it is supported by Miktex/pdflatex for manual .pdf creation Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#346 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
CBLDB22R did not generate correctly from course JCL Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#341 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Feature Request: Localization/Translation of Course Content to Hebrew Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#340 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 8, 2025
Issue with running the mainframe_operations.sh script on Z/OS unix. Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#339 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 30, 2025
screenshots should be readable size. Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#326 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
the arithmetic statement operands paragraph should be part of the limitations paragraph before Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#325 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
examples in book #2 should be working pieces of code. Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#324 · Opened Sep 2, 2024
Create a static site for the book using Docusaurus Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#317 · Opened Apr 21, 2024
Addition of content related to CI/CD by using Jenkins Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#316 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2024
Update content / screenshots for Zowe v3 Explorer Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#315 · Opened Jan 2, 2024
lab or exercise with cobol-java-calling Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#310 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2023
Optimization possible in CBL0106.cbl Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#309 · Opened Aug 18, 2023
API Output for COVID-19 COBOL Challenge is Offline Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#304 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2023
screen images in documentation use too much ink Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#303 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 30, 2023
COBOL compilation output file names are wrongly displayed. Open

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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#301 · Opened May 24, 2023
Another COBOL Programming exercise for VSAM indexed file with alternate indices Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#298 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2023
Readable and maintainable COBOL code Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#257 · Opened Sep 29, 2021
Traducción del curso Mainframe COBOL con VSCode Open

translation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#204 · 12 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jan 22, 2021
Improve the course on Version Control Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#175 · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2020
Improve the course on libraries Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#173 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2020
Improve the course on documentation Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#172 · Opened Aug 24, 2020
Feature request: Zowe Action Cookbook Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-course#118 · 5 comments · Opened May 13, 2020

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