Other uses COBOL disambiguation Infobox programming language name COBOL logo paradigm Procedural programming ... E. Sammet latest release version COBOL 2002 latest release date 2002 typing strong typing strong , static typing static implementations OpenCOBOL , Micro Focus International dialects HP3000 COBOL II, COBOL 2, IBM OS VS COBOL, IBM COBOL II, IBM COBOL SAA, IBM Enterprise COBOL, IBM COBOL 400, IBM ILE COBOL, Unix COBOL X Open, Micro Focus COBOL, Microsoft COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM COBOL, Ryan McFarland RM COBOL 85, DOSVS COBOL, UNIVAC COBOL, Realia COBOL, Fujitsu COBOL, ICL COBOL, ACUCOBOL GT, COBOL IT, DEC COBOL 10, DEC VAX COBOL, Wang VS COBOL, Visual COBOL, Tandem NonStop COBOL85, Tandem NonStop ... , FACT computer language FACT influenced PL I , CobolScript , ABAP wikibooks COBOLCOBOL IPAc ... systems for companies and governments. The COBOL 2002 standard includes support for object oriented ... of Cobol publisher BookSurge Publishing location City year 2006 isbn 0620346523 ref History and specification The COBOL specification was created by a committee of researchers from private industry ... of the COBOL language. The IBM COMTRAN language invented by Bob Bemer was also drawn upon, but the FACT ... portal.acm.org citation.cfm?id 1198367 The Early History of COBOL journal ACM SIGPLAN Notices volume ... months created a description of the first version of COBOL. ref cite book last Garfunkel first Jerome title The Cobol 85 Example Book publisher Wiley location New York year 1987 isbn 0471804614 ref .... In the end a sub committee of the Short Range Committee developed the specifications of the COBOL ... Academic Press location Boston year 1981 isbn 0127450408 ref The decision to use the name COBOL ... for COBOL in December 1959. The first compilers for COBOL were subsequently implemented during the year 1960 and on 6 and 7 December essentially the same COBOL program was run on two different ... could be achieved. ANS COBOL 1968 After 1959 COBOL underwent several modifications and improvements ... more details
COBOL can mean COBOL , CO mmon B usiness O riented L anguage , one of the first third generation computer programming languages BLIS COBOL , an operating system written in COBOL by Data General COBOL ReSource , a COBOL development environment by Wang CobolScript , a COBOL based web HTML scripting language See also Cobalt Kobol disambig ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 COBOL ReSource is a Wang Laboratories Wang VS COBOL development and production environment for Unix . A product of Getronics formerly Wang Laboratories, Inc. , COBOL ReSource was first released in 1993 as a tool to replatform and run Wang VS COBOL applications in unix. It was updated and rereleased in 1995 and its maintenance and ongoing development outsourced to SRDI in the late 1990s. Unique Wang COBOL dialect ported to Unix Wang dialects of COBOL 74 and COBOL 85 have important places in the evolution of COBOL . Wang was among the first, if not the first, to integrate COBOL into environments built from the ground up to be interactive as well as batch . Wang also had a principal role in the COBOL standards bodies until the early 1990s. Wang extensions to COBOL involving record locking scope, rollback and rollforward recovery implemented at the file system level allowing transaction processing, and full interactive workstation screen I O have often made it difficult to port Wang COBOL applications to other systems. Entire VS look and feel in Unix On the surface COBOL ReSource appeals to VS users and software developers because it is faithful to the VS look and feel with 32 PFKeys, foreground suspension via Help, VS Field Attribute Characters, underlining, etc. Under the covers, however, are more significant compatibility features such as VS style argument passing and return by reference between disjoint processes, and full PUTPARM GETPARM functionality. VS file system ported to Unix Wang s premium XDMS file system was ported to Unix to serve as the file system for COBOL ReSource. Called PDMS, it has a track record of supporting shared access to multiple indexed files for user populations as large as 1,000. External links http cobolresource.com COBOL ReSource http softdevl.com SRDI http www.vswebcenter.com VS WebCenter at Getronics http www.getronics.com Getronics http www.tjunker.com The Unofficial Wang VS Information Center Category COBOL ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 See also BLISS programming language Infobox OS name BLIS COBOL logo screenshot caption developer source model kernel type supported platforms Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16 bit minicomputer s ui family released latest release version latest release date latest test version latest test date marketing target programmed in COBOL prog language language updatemodel package manager working state Historic license website BLIS COBOL was an operating system that, unusually, was written in COBOL . It is the only such system to gain reasonably wide acceptance. It was optimised to compile business application written in COBOL. BLIS was available on a range of Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16 bit minicomputer s. Originally, most operating systems were written in assembly language for a particular central processing unit processor or family of processors. Non assembler operating systems were comparatively slow, but were easier for revision and repair. One of the reasons for the C programming language C programming language s low level features, which resemble assembly language in some ways, is an early intent to use it for writing operating systems. Similar goals led to IBM s development of IBM PL S PL S . The high level nature of COBOL, which created some problems for operating system development, was partially addressed in BLIS, since it was deliberately optimised for COBOL. DEFAULTSORT Blis Cobol Category Discontinued operating systems Category COBOL Operating system stub ... more details
The LIKE verb in COBOL is used to copy the data type of one field to another making it have the same attributes without having to specify them again ref http www.tech2mgr.com technical Cobolcobol 20summary Introduction 20to 20COBOL 20 203.htm Introduction to COBOL ref . Example of use Example code 05 FIELD PIC X 10 . 05 FIELD2 LIKE ABC. OR 05 FIELD2 PIC X 10 code The second line defines a 10 byte hexadecimal field with a length equal to the field previously defined. References reflist Category COBOL ... more details
Wim Ebbinkhuijsen born 24 December 1939, Amsterdam is a retired Netherlands Dutch computer scientist who is considered one of the fathers of Cobol . in 1979 he founded the international ISO COBOL working group . From 1967 he was a member, and from 1978 until 2003 he was the chairman of the Dutch COBOL Commission Nederlandse COBOL Commissie . From 1998 until 2001 he was a member of the NCITS ANSI COBOL commission X3J4 and in that position he designed or re wrote dozens parts of the current COBOL standard. As member and chairman of the examining board T2 Cobol Ebbinkhuijsen was active for a number of years with Exin EXamenINstituut , Dutch examination Institute . He also wrote the course books for this exam. On October 22, 2004 after 42 years Ebbinghuijsen left the Cobol world, with a valedictory symposium in the auditorium of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam . For his enormous contribution to COBOL he received an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE award, as well as the Dutch royal distinction, Knighted Ceremonial Knighted in the Order of Orange Nassau Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau . External links http www.cs.vu.nl Cobol valedictory symposium VU, Amsterdam Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ebbinkhuijsen, Wim ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ebbinkhuijsen, Wim Category 1939 births Category Living people Category Dutch computer scientists Category People from Amsterdam Category Knights of the Order of Orange Nassau nl Wim Ebbinkhuijsen sk Wim Ebbinkhuijsen ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date October 2006 In computing a cascader is a type of compiler in which the target language is not directly machine executable, but needs further processing, normally by a second compiler. An example is a decision table processor, where the programmer specifies, in table form, what action is to be done under a set of possibilities often a set of business rules. The generator processes this table and outputs COBOL source code, which must then be input to the normal COBOL compiler. Category Compilers Programming software stub ... more details
FACT was an early computer programming language, created by the Datamatic Division of Honeywell Minneapolis Honeywell for its model 800 series business computers in 1959 . FACT was an acronym for Fully Automated Compiling Technique . It was an influence on the design of the COBOL programming language. Some of the design of FACT was based on the linguistic project Basic English , developed about 1925 by Charles Kay Ogden C.K. Ogden . The software was actually designed by Computer Sciences Corporation Fletcher Jones, Roy Nutt, and Robert L. Patrick under contract to Richard Clippinger of Honeywell. Contributions to COBOL FACT was an influence in the design of COBOL , and is one of 3 predecessor languages credited in all COBOL manuals. Several elements of FACT were incorporated into COBOL Defining data as levels, with group items and elementary items. Assigning of initial values to data as it is being defined VALUE clause . Specifying a limited list of literal values allowed in a specific field 88 level data items . A non procedural report generator based on specifying the appearance of the desired report Report Section in COBOL 66 . Qualification of data names IN or OF clause . Group move of like named items MOVE CORRESPONDING . Validity checks on procedural statements ON ERROR clause . Built in SORT function. Ever working? There is some question if a working version of FACT was ever released by Honeywell. The language was designed, and a detailed specification released see references , but it said that Computer Sciences Corporation also has the contract to implement FACT , which seems to imply that they are still working on an implementation. About that time, the short range committee began developing COBOL, and Roy Nutt, 1 of the 3 principals of CSC began working with that committee on COBOL. It s not clear if he ever came back to implement FACT, or if Honeywell concentrated their programming effort on a COBOL compiler. FACT was implemented it was being used by Depa ... more details
Orphan date September 2008 A declarations generator or DCLGEN pronounced dekel jin is a table schema used by COBOL programs that work against a database, often IBM DB2 on a mainframe. Composition A DCLGEN generally has two sections The SQL declaration for a DB2 table and the COBOL COPYBOOK definition corresponding to the SQL declaration. Example DCLGEN TABLE STUDENTS LIBRARY DEVL.SAP.STUDENTS STUDENTS ACTION REPLACE LANGUAGE COBOL NAMES SAP APOST COLSUFFIX YES EXEC SQL DECLARE STUDENTS TABLE ID DECIMAL 11, 0 NOT NULL, STUDENT NUM SMALLINT NOT NULL, ACTIVE CHAR 1 NOT NULL, REG TIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, START DATE DATE NOT NULL, END DATE DATE NOT NULL END EXEC. COBOL DECLARATION FOR TABLE STUDENTS 01 DCLABNV GST STATUS. 10 ID PIC S9 11 V USAGE COMP 3. 10 STUDENT NUM PIC S9 4 USAGE COMP. 10 ACTIVE PIC X 1 . 10 REG TIME PIC X 26 . 10 START DATE PIC X 10 . 10 END DATE PIC X 10 . Usage DCLGEN libraries are specified as input for the PDL program. This is used to pre generate ADSplus Delta virtual macros, and as input for PDL for generating ADSplus Delta code, and is also used by the DB2 pre compiler normally DSNHPC, but in the case of compiling with Viasoft the compiler is VIASQL. DCLGENs must be pre compiled for use with via Delta Virtual Macros, Delta, or DB2 before the source can be compiled as COBOL using IGYCRCTL normally, or using VIACOBII for Viasoft SmartTest . References div class references small cite web url http www.ibmdatabasemag.com showArticle.jhtml?articleID 15300107 title Say What? Plans DBRMS Packages Collections Versions Confusion accessdate 2008 03 04 last Baker first Bonnie authorlink Bonnie Baker date October 2003 publisher TOP500 div Category COBOL Compu lang stub ... more details
Gary S. Popkin born May 17, 1938, in New York is a retired Professor of Computer Systems at New York City College of Technology and is a Libertarian activist. He has written several college textbooks on the Cobol Programming Language. He has a Ph.D. from Polytechnic Institute of New York University Polytechnic University . He produces Hardfire, a Libertarian Talk Show which is broadcast on Brooklyn Community Access Television BCAT . Gary Popkin was a Libertarian candidate for Brooklyn Borough President in 2005 and received 2,143 votes. He is currently Treasurer of the Libertarian Party of New York . Books Introduction to Data Processing in Basic ISBN 0 395 30091 6 Advanced Structured Cobol ISBN 0 534 07788 9 Comprehensive Structured COBOL ISBN 0 534 06216 4 Introductory Structured Cobol Programming ISBN 0 534 04566 9 Introduction to Data Processing ISBN 0 395 29483 5 Comprehensive Structured COBOL ISBN 0 534 93270 3 Instructors Manual, Introduction to data processing, second edition BASIC version also Videos http video.google.com videoplay?docid 2936188290378984637 Pink Pistols http video.google.com videoplay?docid 6901800056639202215 Circumcision http video.google.com videoplay?docid 5614033367621190011 The Truth about 9 11 http www.amazon.com gp product B000CPJHFM Crisis in Afghanistan http www.amazon.com gp product B000HFZCLK Hardfire Exposes the Naked Truth About Nudism External links http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.geocities.com HardfireTV &date 2009 10 25 07 27 49 Libertarian Programs by Gary Popkin http video.google.com videosearch?q hardfire Hardfire on Google Video Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Popkin, Gary ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Popkin, Gary Category 1938 births Category American activists Category Living people Category New York Libertarians NewYork politician stub ... more details
Infobox OS name EXEC II logo screenshot caption developer Computer Sciences Corporation source model kernel type supported platforms UNIVAC 1107 ui Command line interface family latest release version latest release date support status marketing target prog language COBOL working state license Proprietary software Proprietary website EXEC II was an operating system developed for the UNIVAC 1107 by Computer Sciences Corporation CSC while under contract to UNIVAC to develop the machine s COBOL compiler . They developed EXEC II because Univac s EXEC I operating system development was late. Because of this the COBOL compiler was actually designed to run under EXEC II, not EXEC I as specified in the original contract. See also List of UNIVAC products History of computing hardware External links https wiki.cc.gatech.edu folklore index.php EXEC II Unisys History Newsletter. Volume 1, Number 3 Category UNIVAC software EXEC 2 operating system stub es EXEC II ... more details
In computer programming , CobolScript is a COBOL based Scripting programming language scripting language . CobolScript has syntax familiar to COBOL programmers and is used for data conversion, batch interfaces, and server side scripting . It has versions for Microsoft Windows , Linux , SunOS and FreeBSD . Matt Dean is one of CobolScript s creators. Hello, world The following program produces the HTML of a very simple web page, and can be run on a web server standard output is redirected to the web browser . pre Hello world program DISPLAY Content type text html . DISPLAY LINEFEED. DISPLAY HTML BODY . DISPLAY CENTER Hello World CENTER . DISPLAY BODY HTML . pre By default, CobolScript uses the grave accent to delimit strings although this can be changed using command line options . ref http cobolscript.googlepages.com cbmanual.pdf CobolScript reference manual , page 23, The CobolScript String Delimiter In CobolScript ... the default string delimiter is the Grav accent . ref External links http cobolscript.googlepages.com cobolscript the new CobolScript website. http cobolscript.googlepages.com cbmanual.pdf the CobolScript reference manual. http groups.google.com group cobolscript CobolScript on Google Groups. References references Category Scripting languages Category COBOL it CobolScript compu lang stub ... more details
An indexed file is a computer file with an Index information technology index that allows easy random access to any Storage record record given its file unique key key . The key must be such that it uniquely identifies a record. If more than one index is present the other ones are called alternate indexes . The COBOL language supports indexed files with the following command in the code FILE CONTROL code section ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED Indexed files were replaced by current relational database s. See also B tree s Hash table Data set IBM mainframe Legacy system dbm also X Open ndbm and GNU gdbm Berkeley DB computer stub Category COBOL Category Data structures Category Legacy systems fr Fichier index ... more details
in COBOL are invoked using the second form of the code COPY code statement code COPY text name ... as400 ile rpg iv copybook definition.php RPGLE Copybooks Category COBOL de Include ... more details
other uses2 Moloch Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 Moloch as terminology in computer science is used for monolithic computer programs programs that are big, closed, fat, without the use of components or libraries. They are often made up of lines and lines of spaghetti code . The term is also associated with COBOL and Mainframe computer mainframe applications. DEFAULTSORT Moloch Computing Category Anti patterns Comp sci stub nl Moloch computerterm ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 XDB Enterprise Server is a relational database management system, or DBMS , which was available for DOS , Windows NT and OS 2 , and was fully compatible with IBM DB2 IBM s DB2 database. The system was developed by XDB Systems, Inc. , which was acquired by Micro Focus Micro Focus International group in 1998. It is still shipped with Micro Focus COBOL software solution. DEFAULTSORT Xdb Enterprise Server Category Proprietary database management systems Business software stub ... more details
. Of course, the Activity Definition section is required in every Easytrieve program. Similarity to COBOL The syntax of an Easytrieve program is very similar to COBOL. COBOL programmers will be right at home ... definition, file reading, and report generation. Like COBOL, Easytrieve has many of the same ... syntax size is determined by an integer, instead of X or 9 like COBOL. Reading input files is made ... more details
Image Binary optimizer.png thumb 180px A binary optimizer takes the existing output from a compiler and produces a better execution file with the same functionality. An object code optimizer , sometimes also known as a post pass optimizer or, for small sections of code, peephole optimization peephole optimizer , takes the output from a source language compile step the object code or binary file and tries to replace identifiable sections of the code with replacement code that is more algorithmic efficiency algorithmically efficient usually improved speed . Examples The COBOL Optimizer developed by Capex Corporation in the mid 1970 s for COBOL . This type of optimizer depended, in this case, upon knowledge of weaknesses in the standard IBM COBOL compiler, and actually replaced or Patch computing patch ed sections of the object code with more efficient code. The replacement code might replace a linear Lookup table table lookup with a binary search for example or sometimes simply replace a relatively slow instruction with a known faster one that was otherwise functionally equivalent within its context. This technique is now known as Strength reduction . For example on the IBM 360 hardware the CLI instruction was, depending on the particular model, between twice and 5 times as fast as a CLC instruction for single byte comparisons. ref http www.bitsavers.org pdf ibm 360 A22 6825 1 360instrTiming.pdf ref ref http portal.acm.org citation.cfm?id 358732&dl GUIDE&dl ACM ref Advantages The main advantage of this method was that the stock of already compiled customer programs object code could be improved almost instantly with minimum effort, reducing CPU resources at a fixed cost the price of the proprietary software . A disadvantage was that new releases of COBOL, for example, would require charged maintenance to the optimizer to cater for possibly changed internal COBOL algorithms. However, since new releases of COBOL compilers frequently coincided with hardware upgrades, the ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Esmond Pitt is an Information technology IT consultant, entrepreneur , author, and musician based in Melbourne, Australia . Bibliography Fundamental Networking in Java 2005 ISBN 1 84628 030 3 java TM .rmi The Remote Method Invocation Guide 2001 ISBN 0 201 70043 3 Software design He was the principal architect and author with his brother David Pitt of the Austec Cobol compiler and runtime system which was the first 32 bit COBOL available on Unix 1981 9, and the chief designer and current owner of the Faculti 32 programming platform which supported the Bank of Queensland s telling system from 1994 2001. Other He was also Deputy Chairman 2002 2008 of Melbourne Opera Company Ltd , founded in 2002 to bring fullscale opera at affordable prices to the state of Victoria, Australia and is currently still a Director. External links http www.telekinesis.com.au Authors Site http www.melbourneopera.com Melbourne Opera DEFAULTSORT Pitt, Esmond Category Australian computer scientists Category Computer scientists from Melbourne Category Living people Australia writer stub ... more details
IBM VisualAge Pacbase is a code switching software code switching structured programming Programming language language that is developed and maintained by IBM . IBM VisualAge VisualAge Pacbase runs on both IBM mainframe IBM and non IBM Mainframe computer mainframes and integrates with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer . When compiling Pacbase code it is first translated in to COBOL and then compiled to binary. IBM expects to support Pacbase through 2015. More details on the http fr.wikipedia.org wiki PACBASE French page of VisualAge Pacbase . External links http www 306.ibm.com software awdtools vapacbase IBM VisualAge Pacbase Overview http www.pcmag.com encyclopedia term 0,2542,t PACBASE&i 48726,00.asp PCMAG Definition of PACBASE http www.guepard.asso.fr European Users Club of VisualAge Pacbase http www 01.ibm.com software rational products programming systemz RPPz replacement solution for VisualAge Pacbase from IBM Definition of PACBASE Early advanced CASE software for mainframes and Unix systems from CGI Systems that supported a wide variety of databases, including DB2 and Oracle. PACBASE generated COBOL code for the servers, and Visual Age for PACBASE was used to create the client side. IBM purchased CGI in the early 1990s and absorbed the code generating tools into its other offerings Category IBM software prog lang stub de Pacbase fr PACBASE ja Pacbase ... more details
Refimprove date March 2008 A signed overpunch is a code used to store the Sign mathematics sign of a number by changing the last digit. It was used in old punched card systems and was carried over to COBOL , especially when using EBCDIC . Its purpose is to save a character that would otherwise be used by the sign digit. ref name EncycArk Cite web url http www.3480 3590 data conversion.com article signed fields.html title Tech Talk, COBOL Tutorials, EBCDIC to ASCII Conversion of Signed Fields accessdate 2008 03 15 ref The codes class wikitable style text align center Code Digit Sign 0 &minus J 1 &minus K 2 &minus L 3 &minus M 4 &minus N 5 &minus O 6 &minus P 7 &minus Q 8 &minus R 9 &minus 0 A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5 F 6 G 7 H 8 I 9 Examples 10 is 100 BR 45A is 451 Decimal points are usually implied not explicit in the text. Using numbers with two decimal digits 1000 is 100.00 References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Signed Overpunch Category Computer programming Category Data collection Category Data management Category History of software ... more details
The Data Base Task Group DBTG was a working group founded in 1965 initially named the List Processing Task Force and later renamed to DBTG in 1967 by the Cobol Committee , formerly Programming Language Committee , of the Conference of Data Systems Language CODASYL . In April 1971, the DBTG published a report containing specifications of a Data Manipulation Language DML and a Data Definition Language DDL for standardization of Network model network database model . The first DBTG proposals had already been published in 1969. The specification was subsequently modified and developed in various committees and published by other reports in 1973 and 1978. The specification is often referred to as the DBTG database model or the CODASYL database model. As well as the data model, many basic concepts of database terminology were introduced by this group, notably the concepts of Database schema schema and subschema . Source Gunter Schlageter, Wolffried Stucky Datenbanksysteme Konzepte und Modelle , B. G. Teubner Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3 519 12339 8 Category History of software Category COBOL Category Data modeling languages database stub de Data Base Task Group pt DBTG scn Data Base Task Group simple Data Base Task Group ... more details
FACT may refer to Federation Against Copyright Theft Federation of American Consumers and Travelers FACT biology facilitates chromatin transcription , a protein factor affecting eukaryotic cells FACT the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology , a multimedia complex based in Liverpool, England FACT computer language , an early programming language that influenced the design of COBOL Cape Town International Airport , its ICAO airport code Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited , a fertiliser and chemical manufacturing company in Kochi, Kerala, India FACT United Kingdom magazine , a British music and culture magazine See also Fact Fact disambiguation disambig ... more details
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