Pro COBOL Programmers Guide
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
500 Pages 
Cobol vs Standards and Conventions
This note explains Cobol design standards, Cobol coding standards and cobol environments.
Author(s): Department of Accounting and General Services
77 Pages
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
118 Pages
