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
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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.
Author(s): Stack Overflow Contributors
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