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This document provides an introduction to basic COBOL programming. It outlines COBOL structure including divisions, sections, paragraphs, sentences and statements. It also covers COBOL coding rules such as line lengths, area specifications, and name rules. The learning objectives are to understand the use of COBOL language, its structure, and coding rules.

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BASIC COBOL Programming Training Presentation - V1.0 Module 1

This document provides an introduction to basic COBOL programming. It outlines COBOL structure including divisions, sections, paragraphs, sentences and statements. It also covers COBOL coding rules such as line lengths, area specifications, and name rules. The learning objectives are to understand the use of COBOL language, its structure, and coding rules.

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BASIC COBOL PROGRAMMING

CHAMBER 3
Basic COBOL – Module 1
CHAMBER 3

Introduction to COBOL

COBOL Structure

Coding Rules
Learning Objectives

By the end of this session the participant


will be able to
 Understand the use of COBOL language
 Know about COBOL Structure
 Understand the coding rules for COBOL

3
Introduction to COBOL

COmmon
Business
Oriented
Language

4
Introduction to COBOL

 Mainlyused for developing business, file-


oriented data processing application
 High level computer language
 English like language

5
Introduction to COBOL - Contd

 Various versions of COBOL


 VS COBOL-74
 VS COBOL-85
 VS COBOL II
 OS COBOL
 LE COBOL

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COBOL Structure
Program

Divisions

Section(s)

Paragraph(s)

Sentence(s)

Statement(s)

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COBOL Structure

 Division(s)

A block of code contains one or more


sections

 Section(s)

A block of code contains one or more


paragraphs

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COBOL Structure
 Paragraph(s)

A block of code made up of one or more


sentences
 Sentence(s) and Statement(s)
A sentence consists of one or more
statements and is terminated by a period
A statement consists of a COBOL verb and
an operand or operands

9
COBOL Structure

 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION
 Identifies program to operating system
 Provides documentation about program

 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION
 Defines file-names
 Describes devices used to store them

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COBOL Structure

 DATA DIVISION
 Describes input and output format of data in
files
 Defines any constants and work areas

 PROCEDURE DIVISION
 Contains the program algorithms

11
COBOL - Coding Rules
 Any instruction in COBOL Program is 1 to 80 characters (columns)
long. This area is divided as follows…

 Column 1-6 For Line Numbers (Optional)


 Column 7 ‘*’ For Comment Line
 ‘/’ For Page Eject
 ‘-’ For Continuation of literal
 Column 8-11 Area A
 Column 12-72 Area B
 Column 73-80 Identification entry (Optional)

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Name Rules
 Section name/Paragraph Name
 User defined words

 Can be maximum 30 character long

 Letters, Digit and ‘–’ only

 No embedded blanks

 At least one alphabetic character

 No COBOL reserved words (like FILLER, RENAMES)

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Winding up
 COBOL
 As language

 Usage

 Structure
 Division

 Section

 Paragraph

 Statement

 Sentence

 Coding rules

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CHAMBER 3

Thank You

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