Empower you to create powerful, Y2K-complient COBOL applications. Using client-proven methods, and over 20 years of COBOL programming experience, this book provides you with an understanding of the COBOL language and programming methods.

This self-instructional manual has been developed to teach the beginner the fundamentals of COBOL programming. It contains everything you need to know to store and retrieve data in files, perform calculations necessary for business operations, and organize and format data for presentation on paper and on the computer screen.

This book is a comprehensive guide to good programming practice, program design and code. It contains two new chapters, on Intrinsic Functions and Program Errors, Testing and Debugging. Each chapter has been revised to make full use of the COBOL Standard.

This is a comprehensive set of COBOL tutorials making a full COBOL course as well as COBOL lecture notes, COBOL programming exercises with sample solutions, COBOL programming exam specifications with model answers, COBOL project specifications.

This book includes comprehensive coverage of COBOL features and techniques, including control structures, condition names, sequential and direct access files, data redefinition, string handling, decimal arithmetic, subprograms, and the report writer.

This book is a comprehensive guide designed to engage and empower readers, ensuring they not only learn COBOL but also stay curious and eager to explore its depths. You'll never feel overwhelmed as you gradually build your COBOL skills.

The author of this document has over a decade's worth of experience in writing COBOL programs, and has encountered many different standards, each with its own set of strong as well as weak points.

Forget what you think you may know about COBOL. A way to connect COBOL applications with other languages and systems that tears down many of the physical and artificial barriers that have existed in the past.

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 Open-COBOL.

This book explains how you use Micro Focus OO extensions to COBOL for Object-oriented programming. It includes explanations of concepts, programming tutorials, programming documentation and information about the Micro Focus Class Library.