ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide


Introduction

COmmon Business Oriented Language (COBOL) is a programming language that resembles English. As its name suggests, COBOL is especially efficient for processing business problems. It emphasizes describing and handling data items and input/output records; thus, COBOL is well adapted for managing large files of data.

This chapter provides the following:


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