ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide
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:
- an introduction to the Integrated Language Environment (ILE)
- an introduction to ILE COBOL
- an overview of function that has been incorporated in ILE COBOL that is
not available in OPM COBOL/400
- an overview of the major steps in creating a runnable program object
- an overview of other application development tools that are available to
help you develop ILE COBOL applications more effectively.
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