REDEFINES VS RENAMES: RENAMES clause is used for regrouping elementary data items and gives one name to it. REDEFINES clause allows you to use different data descriptions entries to describe the same memory area. What is redefine in COBOL? Redefines clause is used to define a storage with different data Read more…
All COBOL divisions, sections, paragraphs and some special entries must begin in Area A. All COBOL statements must begin in area B. It can be used as needed by the programmer. What is a COBOL statement? Learn Introductory Programming With COBOL It is either a user-defined or a predefined name Read more…
This bedding is suitable for rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, gerbils, hamsters and mice. 1. What bedding should you not use for rabbits? Shredded paper, straw, and paper pulp bedding are not great choices for the litter box. Pine and cedar shavings should be avoided for use in bedding or Read more…
COBOL Script: a business-oriented scripting language. Why COBOL is not considered as scripting language? Compared to common programming languages today, COBOL is different, and in some ways very limited: you can’t do dynamic memory allocation, you can’t easily access low-level features of the operating system or particular computer architecture. The Read more…
Replacing option is used to replace the string characters. INSPECT input-string REPLACING ALL char1 BY char2. input-string − The string whose characters are to be replaced from char1 to char2. How do you replace a character in Cobol? Syntax – INSPECT ws-input REPLACING CHARACTERS BY ws-replacing-char/replacing-literal. INSPECT ws-input REPLACING CHARACTERS Read more…
The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM. Which is older COBOL or FORTRAN? The oldest programming language is Fortran, which was first commercially released in 1957. Read more…
COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language. One of the first of the high-level languages, it was put together by a group sponsored by the Department of Defense to develop a common business language. Is COBOL high-level language? COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a high-level programming language for business applications. Read more…
COBOL provides 3 different types of file organization: Sequential File Organization. Indexed Sequential File Organization. Relative File Organization. What are the 3 types of file organization? Records are stored and accessed in a particular order sorted using a key field. Retrieval requires searching sequentially through the entire file record by Read more…
An ILE COBOL program can be ended by the following: A ILE COBOL statement (EXIT PROGRAM, STOP RUN, or GOBACK) A reply to an inquiry message. An implicit STOP RUN or EXIT PROGRAM statement. How do you end a subprogram? A subprogram is usually left in its last-used state when Read more…
Grace Hopper. COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper. It was created as part of a US Department of Defense effort to create a portable programming language for data processing. Who wrote the first compiler for COBOL? Read more…