• Key Topics
• Preface
  • Acknowledgement
  • Copyright Notice
  • Definitions
  • Source Formats
    • Fixed
    • Free
    • Terminal
    • Variable
• Program Structure
  • Synopsis
• Identification Division
  • PROGRAM-ID Paragraph
  • CLASS-ID Paragraph
  • INTERFACE-ID Paragraph
  • FACTORY Paragraph
  • OBJECT Paragraph
  • METHOD-ID Paragraph
• Environment Division
  • CONFIGURATION Section
    • SOURCE-COMPUTER Paragraph
    • OBJECT-COMPUTER Paragraph
    • SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph
    • REPOSITORY Paragraph
  • INPUT-OUTPUT Section
    • FILE-CONTROL Paragraph
    • File Names
      • -Q <printerName> syntax
    • File names interpretation
    • I-O-CONTROL Paragraph
• Data Division
  • FILE Section
    • File description
  • Record Description
  • WORKING-STORAGE Section
  • LOCAL-STORAGE Section
  • LINKAGE Section
  • REPORT Section
  • SCREEN Section
  • Data Description
    • Level-Number
    • BLANK WHEN ZERO clause
    • CONTROL clause
    • IS EXTERNAL clause
    • IS EXTERNAL-FORM clause
    • IS IDENTIFIED clause
    • IS SPECIAL-NAMES clause
    • IS TYPEDEF clause
    • JUSTIFIED clause
    • NEXT GROUP clause
    • OCCURS clause
    • PICTURE clause
    • PRESENT WHEN clause
    • PROPERTY clause
    • REDEFINES clause
    • REPORT clause
    • RENAMES clause
    • SIGN clause
    • SUM clause
    • SYNCHRONIZED clause
    • TYPE clause
    • GROUP-DYNAMIC clause
    • GROUP-USAGE clause
    • USAGE clause
    • VALUE clause
    • VARYING clause
    • SAME AS clause
  • Screen Description
    • Level-Number
    • AUTO clause
    • Background Intensity
    • BLANK clause
    • BLANK WHEN ZERO clause
    • COLOR clause
    • COLUMN clause
    • CONTROL clause
    • Foreground Intensity
    • FROM clause
    • JUSTIFIED clause
    • LINE clause
    • NO-ECHO clause
    • OCCURS clause
    • OUTPUT clause
    • PROMPT clause
    • REVERSE clause
    • SIGN clause
    • SIZE clause
    • TAB-GROUP clause
    • TAB-GROUP-VALUE clause
    • TO clause
    • UNDERLINED clause
    • UPPER and LOWER clauses
    • USING clause
    • VALUE clause
    • ZERO-FILL clause
    • Embedded Procedures
  • Color management
  • Logical Record Concept
    • Physical Aspects of a File
    • File connector
    • Conceptual Characteristics of a File
    • Record Concepts
  • Concept of Levels
    • Level-Numbers
  • Concept of Classes of Data
  • Algebraic Signs
  • Standard Alignment Rules
  • Item Alignment
  • Data Names
    • Uniqueness of Reference
    • Qualification
    • Report counters
    • Subscripting
    • Reference Modification
    • Condition-name
    • ADDRESS OF
    • CURRENT-DATE
    • EXCEPTION-OBJECT
    • FUNCTION
    • LENGTH OF
    • LINAGE-COUNTER
    • PROGRAM-ID
    • TIME-OF-DAY
    • RECORD-POSITION
    • WHEN-COMPILED
• Procedure Division
  • Procedure division structure
  • Declaratives
  • Arithmetic expressions
    • Arithmetic operators
  • Conditional expressions
    • Class condition
    • Relation conditions
    • Condition-name condition
    • Complex condition
    • Combined condition
  • Procedures
    • Sections
    • Paragraphs
  • Procedural statements and sentences
    • Conditional phrase
    • Scope of statements
      • Explicit scope termination
      • Implicit scope termination
  • Execution
    • Run unit organization
    • State of a method, object, or program
      • State of a method or program
        • Active state
        • Initial and last-used states of data
      • Initial state of object data
    • Explicit and implicit transfers of control
    • Item identification
    • Results of runtime element execution
    • Sending and receiving operands
    • Alignment of data within data items
    • Overlapping operands
    • Normal run unit termination
    • Abnormal run unit termination
    • Condition handling
      • Exception conditions
        • Normal completion of a declarative procedure
        • Fatal exception conditions
        • Non-fatal exception conditions
        • Exception objects
      • Incompatible data
  • Common phrases and features for statements
    • At end condition
    • Invalid key condition
    • ROUNDED phrase
    • SIZE ERROR phrase and size error condition
    • CORRESPONDING phrase
    • Arithmetic statements
    • THROUGH phrase
  • Conformance for parameters and returning items
    • Parameters
      • Group items
      • Elementary items
        • Elementary items passed by reference
        • Elementary items passed by content
    • Returning items
      • Group items
      • Elementary items
  • Statement categories
    • Conditional statements
    • Imperative statements
    • Delimited scope statements
    • Compiler-directing
• Procedure Division Statements
  • ACCEPT
  • ADD
  • ALTER
  • ASSERT
  • CALL
  • CANCEL
  • CHAIN
  • CLOSE
  • COMMIT
  • COMPUTE
  • CONTINUE
  • DELETE
  • DESTROY
  • DISPLAY
  • DIVIDE
  • ENTER
  • ENTRY
  • EVALUATE
  • EXAMINE
  • EXEC
  • EXHIBIT
  • EXIT
  • GENERATE
  • GOBACK
  • GO TO
  • IF
  • INITIALIZE
  • INITIATE
  • INQUIRE
  • INSPECT
  • INVOKE
  • MODIFY
  • MOVE
  • MULTIPLY
  • NEXT SENTENCE
  • NOTE
  • OPEN
  • PERFORM
  • RAISE
  • READ
  • RECEIVE
  • RELEASE
  • RESUME
  • RETURN
  • REWRITE
  • ROLLBACK
  • SEARCH
  • SEND
  • SERVICE RELOAD
  • SET
  • SORT
  • START
  • STOP
  • STRING
  • SUBTRACT
  • SYNCHRONIZED
  • TERMINATE
  • TRANSFORM
  • TRY
  • UNLOCK
  • UNSTRING
  • WAIT
  • WRITE
  • XML GENERATE
  • XML PARSE
  • YIELD
• Compiler-Directing Statements
  • COPY
  • EJECT
  • PROCESS
  • REPLACE
  • SKIP
  • USE
• Embedded SQL (ESQL)
  • Identifiers
  • Host Variables
    • Update of host variables value
    • How to specify the parent data item
    • Group Items as Host Variables
    • Storing binary data in Host Variables
    • Mapping a VARCHAR field to a COBOL group data item
    • SQL and COBOL data types
  • Indicator Variables
  • Dynamic SQL
  • SQLCA
  • SQLDA
  • Working on multiple connection simultaneously
• Embedded SQL Statements
  • ALLOCATE
  • ALTER
  • BEGIN
  • CALL
  • CLOSE
  • COMMIT
  • CONNECT
  • CREATE
  • DEALLOCATE
  • DECLARE
  • DELETE
  • DESCRIBE
  • DISCONNECT
  • DROP
  • END
  • EXECUTE
  • FETCH
  • FREE
  • GRANT
  • INCLUDE
  • INSERT
  • LOCK TABLE
  • OPEN
  • PREPARE
  • REVOKE
  • ROLLBACK
  • SELECT
  • SET
  • SET CONNECTION
  • TRUNCATE TABLE
  • UPDATE
  • VAR
  • WHENEVER
• EFD Directives
  • ALPHA Directive
  • ALWAYS Directive
  • BINARY Directive
  • BINDEFAULT Directive
  • CBDEFAULT Directive
  • COBTRIGGER Directive
  • COMMENT Directive
  • DATE Directive
  • FILE Directive
  • FIX-LENGTH Directive
  • HIDDEN Directive
  • HINT Directive
  • NAME Directive
  • NOCONVERTERROR Directive
  • NUMERIC Directive
  • READ-ONLY Directive
  • SERIAL Directive
  • SPLIT Directive
  • TEMPORARY Directive
  • USE GROUP Directive
  • VAR-LENGTH Directive
  • WHEN Directive
  • WHEN OTHER Directive
• ELK Directives
  • DECORATION Directive
  • HIDDEN Directive
  • INPUT Directive
  • MANDATORY Directive
  • NAME Directive
  • NULLABLE Directive
  • OPERATION Directive
  • OUTPUT Directive
  • TYPE Directive
  • USE GROUP Directive
  • VALUE Directive
• SQL Directives
  • HOSTVAR Directive
• Language Extensions
• Object-oriented Programming
  • Object oriented concepts
  • Classes
  • Objects
    • Object instantiations
    • Object data definitions
    • Object references
    • Factory objects
  • Methods
    • Method invocation
    • Method prototypes
    • Unnamed methods
  • Other object oriented programming features
    • Inheritance
    • Restricting inheritance and modification with the FINAL clause
    • Conformance
    • Polymorphism
    • Parametric Polymorphism
    • Boxing
  • Object management
    • Objects
  • Class library
  • Parameterized classes
  • Files in object orientation
    • Files in instance objects
    • Files in factory objects
  • Data items in object orientation
  • Exception objects
  • Lambda expressions
  • Sample application
    • Main program
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