Featured resource
2025 Tech Upskilling Playbook
Tech Upskilling Playbook

Build future-ready tech teams and hit key business milestones with seven proven plays from industry leaders.

Check it out
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode

This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the participant to be able to write basic COBOL programs. This is a fantastic compliment to the IBM z/OS Practitioner path for the IBM Mainframe.

IBM - Pluralsight course - Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode
IBM
What you'll learn

This introductory COBOL course helps a novice learn the Structure of COBOL programs, Data types & Variable Handling, Intrinsic Functions, Branching logic and more. The goal of the course is to enable the participant to be able to write basic COBOL programs. This is a fantastic compliment to the IBM z/OS Practitioner path for the IBM Mainframe. This course includes readings, quizzes, and lab exercises accompanying the video course. You will need 15-16 hours to complete this course.

Join the COBOL Fridays web series. These webinars are curated for first-time programmers, lifelong learners, and anyone who's interested in learning COBOL: ibm.biz/cfpluralsight

Table of contents

About the author
IBM - Pluralsight course - Learning COBOL Programming with VSCode
IBM

IBM® can transform your application and data portfolio with innovative data privacy, security, and cyber resiliency capabilities – all delivered through a hybrid cloud.

Get access now

Sign up to get immediate access to this course plus thousands more you can watch anytime, anywhere.

Get started with Pluralsight