The earner of this badge has completed a 5-day lecture and lab course. During this course, badge earners acquired skills in I/O processing, conditional testing, arithmetic operations, table handling, subprogram concepts and linkage conventions. The course also covered structured programming using the new COBOL for MVS constructs for Do groups (inline performs), Dowhile, Dountil, Selection (IF THEN ELSE) and Case (evaluate). This training is current to the latest release of Enterprise COBOL.