One computer programming
language was designed specifically for business, Common Business-Oriented
Language, COBOL. COBOL has been transforming and supporting business globally
since its invention in 1959. COBOL is responsible for the efficient, reliable,
secure and unseen day-to-day operation of the world’s economy. This PDF covers
the following topics related to COBOL :Getting started, Why COBOL, VSCode
with Zowe Explorer, VSCode with Z Open Editor, VS Code with Code4z Open-Source
Extension Package, Zowe CLI and Zowe CLI Plug-ins, Installation of VSCode and
extensions, Installation of Zowe CLI and Plug-ins, Basic COBOL, Data division,
File handling, Program structure, File output, Conditional expressions,
Arithmetic expressions, Data types, Intrinsic functions.
Author(s): Michael Bauer, Zeibura Kathau, Makenzie
Manna, Paul Newton, Jonathan Sayles, William Yates
This document describes the
syntax, semantics and usage of the COBOL programming language as implemented by
the current version of GNU COBOL, formerly known as OpenCOBOL.
This note covers the following
topics: Format, Variable Declarations, Executable Statements, Input and
Output, Compiling And Running, Cobol String Handling, Subscripting Vs Indexing
In Cobol and Table Searching in cobol.