This tutorial is designed for software programmers who would like to learn the basics of COBOL. It provides enough understanding on COBOL programming language from where you can take …

Evolution of COBOL During 1950s, when the businesses were growing in the western part of the world, there was a need to automate various processes for ease of operation and this gave …

COBOL is a high-level language. One must understand the way COBOL works. Computers only understand machine code, a binary stream of 0s and 1s. COBOL code must be converted into …

We have set up the COBOL Programming environment online, so that you can compile and execute all the available examples online. It gives you confidence in what you are reading and …

COBOL was designed for business-oriented applications related to financial domain, defense domain, etc. It can handle huge volumes of data because of its advanced file handling …

Coding Sheet The source program of COBOL must be written in a format acceptable to the compilers. COBOL programs are written on COBOL coding sheets. There are 80 character …

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding COBOL programming skills. A basic knowledge of database concepts will help you understand the IMS database …

A COBOL program structure consists of divisions as shown in the following image − A brief introduction of these divisions is given below − Sections are the logical subdivision of program …