This two-day course teaches mainframe COBOL developers how to use IBM Rational Developer for System z to develop applications on the mainframe from a workstation. The course covers connecting to z/OS systems, creating and editing COBOL programs, building and running programs, debugging, and using DB2 and BMS. Prior experience with z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, and DB2 is required. The course is offered in Paris on specific dates in April and November 2015.