I am Not even a Novice.........:o) need help..

Hey all,
As the subject line states I am just a biganner to Cobol ,I have got
good experience working on TSO ISPF but I am mostly involved in
testing of Mainframes based applicasion as such.Now i want to try my
hands on Cobol and JCL .

Now the proble over here is that I want to try out my Cobol progams
back at my Home ( as at my work Place it will not be appriciated) .So
can any one help me and tell me exactly what should be my approch in
this condition???

I was quite good with Programming as in my college days I was a well
known C,C++ programmer ( but those were good old college days).

I am using Windows XP back at home and I dont have access to
Mainframes.
:o(

Wating for reply.
Pratts

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