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Update Course 2 for publishing
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MikeBauerCA authored Oct 8, 2020
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- **COBOL Challenge - The Unemployment Claims**
- **Hacker News Rankings for Mainframe/COBOL Posts**

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## COBOL Challenge - Debugging

It is 2020 in Washington, D.C. John Doe runs a program which provides financial reports on US Presidents and tallies the number of reports from the state of Virginia. Everything seems OK. (see below)
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You can find them in the github repository for the COBOL course, in the subfolder **/COBOL Programming Course #2 - Advanced Topics/Challenges/Debugging**.

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## COBOL Challenge - The COVID-19 Reports

Today, you are tasked to create a COVID-19 Summary Report of all the countries around the world, using information from the COVID19API website.
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3. Using Zowe, upload the CSV file to the mainframe.

**Hint:** You can use the command `zowe files ul ftds file location” “dataset name` to upload the CSV file to the mainframe.
**Hint:** You can use the command `zowe files ul ftds "file location" "dataset name"` to upload the CSV file to the mainframe.

4. Create a new member in your *.CBL data set to write your COBOL program.

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To check the solution, refer to the blog post [here](https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan/solution-covid-19-reports-cobol-challenge-6c509579e3fe?source=friends_link&sk=5a662034a03c91d639b77267ed6abfc9).
Happy Coding! 😉
Happy Coding!
_Disclaimer: This challenge is also posted in [Medium.com](https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan/cobol-challenge-covid-19-reports-ee03a946bd23)._
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## COBOL Challenge - The Unemployment Claims
Now let's try a more advanced challenge! Your task is to create an end-to-end solution. Our end goal is to build an application that will fire Zowe APIs to the mainframe and display the result in the application. This is how the flow would look:
![](Images/cobolchClaims-img1.png)
_Of course, you do not have to complete the whole challenge if you do not want to. But it would be great if you do_ 😉
_Of course, you do not have to complete the whole challenge if you do not want to. But it would be great if you do_
### Our Data
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I hope that by taking this challenge, you will be able to learn something new!
Happy Coding! 😉
Happy Coding!
_Disclaimer: This challenge is also posted in [Medium.com](https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan/zowe-cobol-challenge-the-unemployment-claims-2e35a42eabaa)._
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## Hacker News Rankings for Mainframe/COBOL Posts
![](Images/hacker-img1.png)
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