I have been programming COBOL for over 25 years on IBM mainframes. I have coded COBOL/CICS, COBOL/DB2, COBOL VSAM, COBOL with DataComm with programs ranging from a few hundred lines to over ten thousand lines. My official title is Senior Software Engineer at my company based primarily on my COBOL expertise. I have been involved in teaching/tutoring technical subjects for the last ten years or so. By profession I am a computer programmer. Even though certain parts and certain languages in computer programming are very different, the basics of computer programming are still the same. I have [more]