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 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 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.