COBOL is the COmmon Business Oriented programming Language. COBOL is a procedural, imperative, compiled programming
language. As of the COBOL 2002 spec, Object Oriented features were added to the standard. The
contents include: Getting started with cobol, ACCEPT statement, ADD statement, ALLOCATE statement,
ALTER statement, CALL statement, CANCEL statement, COMMIT statement, COMPUTE
statement, CONTINUE statement, COPY directive, Data division, DELETE statement, DISPLAY
statement, DIVIDE statement, EVALUATE statement, EXIT statement, FREE statement, GENERATE
statement, GnuCOBOL installation with GNU or Linux.
This lecture note covers the following topics:
introduction to COBOL, Divisions of Cobol, Picture clause characteristics,
Editing, Level structure, Data movement verb Move Arithmetic verbs, Input and output verbs, Corresponding options, Programs using
Arithmetic verbs, Conditions, Conditionals statements, Perform statements,
Renames and redefines clauses, Programs, Sequential files, Direct access files,
Indexed sequential files, Sorting and merging of files, Programs, Table
handling, Indexed tables and index names, Search and start verbs, Programs using
occurs and screen section.
This manual is a comprehensive user's guide and
reference to the Oracle Pro COBOL Precompiler. It shows you how to develop COBOL
programs that use the database languages SQL and PL or SQL to access and manipulate
Oracle data. This PDF covers the following topics related to Pro COBOL
Precompiler : Introduction, Precompiler Concepts, Database Concepts, Datatypes
and Host Variables, Embedded SQL, Embedded PL or SQL, Host Tables, Error Handling
and Diagnostics, Oracle Dynamic SQL, ANSI Dynamic SQL, Oracle Dynamic SQL:
Method, Multithreaded Applications, Large Objects , Precompiler Options.
Author(s): Syed Mujeed Ahmed, Jack Melnick, James W.
Rawles, Neelam Singh, Oracle
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.
This note
covers the following topics: Source Code Documentation, Program Identification,
Program Data, Program Code, Program Structure, Sentences and Statements,
Conditional Processing, Hints, Notes and Warnings, Sample Online Procedures,
Sample Batch Procedures, Multi-line Enquiry screens and Multi-line Input or
Update screens.