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COBOL
(COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE)
By: Manjula Sanjay Asst. prof, Dept. of MCA
Objective
COBOL is one of the most widespread commercial applications languages in use today. The course is aimed at developers to get the basic knowledge of COBOL program development. This course covers all aspects of Programming with COBOL.
The course teaches the design, writing and testing of COBOL programs.
Having studied this subject, the students should be able:
Develop Structured COBOL Programs
Understand and Use COBOL Verbs
Develop COBOL programs using the available verbs
Develop and Test COBOL print programs
Develop and Test COBOL programs accessing different types of files
Text Books
Text Book
Nancy Stern and Robert A Stern, 11th edition, Structured COBOL Programming, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Reference Book
M.K.Roy and D. Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001, COBOL—85,2nd Edition.
Introduction
Types of computer programs
Operating system programs
Application programs / Software
Types of Processing
Interactive – A point-of-Sale system
Batch processing – Payroll System (Large volume of input at periodic intervals)
COBOL support both type of processing
Customized Application Package: Budget, Scheduling etc.
Machine language programs
Symbolic programs : translates to machine language by compiler
Program Development Process
Determine the program specification
Design the program using program planning tools
Code the program
Compile the program
Test the program
Document the program
Compile the programSource program
in symbolic language
Object program in machine language
Translated by compiler
Test the program
Debug during compile & test phase
Compile time errors: Syntax error e.g. ADD | AD Misspelled reserved words Missing punctuation
Execution errors: Logic error e.g. ADD instead of Multiply
Run-Time error: Occurs if computer cannot execute the instruction.
E.g.- Attempt to divide by zero Reading from a file that cannot be found.
Contents
History of COBOL
Features & Language Fundamentals
Program Structure
Coding Format for COBOL Programs
Character Set, Words, Data Names, Literals.
Nature of COBOL
popular Business-oriented language
Standard language
English-like language: Standard & business oriented
Relatively easy to understand- User friendly
Reference: http://www.ansi.org
History of COBOL
1959 – United States Department of Defense
1960 - COBOL initial specifications presented by CODASYL (COnference on Data SYstems Languages)
1961 – COBOL 61
1964 – BASIC COBOL extended to Visual COBOL
1968 – ANSI (American National Standards Institute) developed
American National Standard (ANS) COBOL
1974 – ANSI published revised version of (ANS) COBOL
– Business applications needed to manipulate character as well as numeric data
– String operations added
1985 – COBOL 85 Standards was introduced with revised version of COBOL-74.
COBOL
What does COBOL stand for?
COmmon Business Oriented Language.
Which are target area of COBOL applications?
Defense, Aircraft, Insurance, Finance, Retail etc.
(file & data oriented applications involved)
So we can say that COBOL is basically used for writing business applications and not for developing system software
Future of COBOL
COBOL is likely to remain an important language in the years ahead
According to Datapro Information Services Group about 150 billion lines of COBOL source code in use
5 billion new lines added each year
Cobol is used by 42.7% of application programmers in medium to large U.S. companies
$200 million revenues for 2001
Year 2000 Problem (Y2K)
Year stored as two digits in older programs to save space
19 assumed as valid prefix for all years
95 represented year 1995
Invalid as prefix for years 2000 and beyond
00 could mean 1900 or 2000
Year 2000 Problem (Y2K)
Many calculations with dates incorrect starting in 2000
To find your age if you were born in 1970
Subtract 70 from 95 (95 - 70 = 25)
Calculation incorrect for year 2000 and beyond
00 - 70 = -70 when age should be 30
Year 2000 Problem (Y2K)
To correct problem
Billions of lines of code, many written in COBOL needed to be examined
Code changed to use four digits for year
Age, other calculations now correct
1995 - 1970 = 25
2000 - 1970 = 30
2012 – 1988 = 24
Improving Program Design
Two techniques used to develop programs that are easier to understand, test, debug and modify
Structured Programming
Top-Down Programming
Structured Programming
Eliminates use of GO TO statements
Allowed skipping to different sections of program without returning to starting point
Program logic easier to follow with "GO-TO-less" programming
Structured Programming
Program divided into paragraphs
Structured programming follows logical control constructs that make program easier to read, modify, and debug.
Main paragraph or module controls logic flow using PERFORM statements
Main module "performs" other modules when instructions in that module required
Each module can be written and tested independently of others
Top-Down Programming
Another technique to make programs easier to understand, test, debug and modify
Develop program like term paper
Develop outline first
Add details for each of main steps
Add further refinement for more complex steps
Top-Down Programming
For COBOL program
Code main modules or routines first
Code intermediate modules next
Details deferred to minor modules and coded last
COBOL – Program Structure
Principal portions of a program. There are 4 divisions –a) Identification (Required)b) Environment (Optional)c) Data (Optional)d) Procedure (Required)
User defined chunk of code which consists of one/more paragraphs.
e.g. a) U000-CHECK-LOG SECTION.
b) FILE SECTION.
User defined chunk of code which consists of one/more sentences.
e.g. a) P000-PRINT-FINAL-TOTALS.
b) PROGRAM-ID.A SENTENCE consists of one or
more statements and is terminated by a full stop.
e.g. a) MOVE .21 TO VAT-RATE
b) COMPUTE VAT-AMOUNT =
PRODUCT-COST * VAT-RATE.
PROGRAM
DIVISIONS
SECTIONS
PARAGRAPHS
SENTENCES
STATEMENTS
A STATEMENT consists of a COBOL verb and an operand or operands.
e.g. SUBTRACT T-TAX FROM GROSS-
PAY GIVING NET-PAYCHARACTERS
RESERVED WORDS
USER DEFINED WORDS
Example
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. Multiplier.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 Num1 PIC 9 VALUE ZEROS.
01 Num2 PIC 9 VALUE ZEROS.
01 Result PIC 99 VALUE ZEROS.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY "Enter first number (1 digit) : " .
ACCEPT Num1.
DISPLAY "Enter second number (1 digit) : “.
ACCEPT Num2.
MULTIPLY Num1 BY Num2 GIVING Result.
DISPLAY "Result is = ", Result.
STOP RUN.
1. DIVISIONS
A DIVISION is the largest unit in the COBOL program and is a collection of SECTIONs and/or paragraphs. Every COBOL program is divided into four DIVISIONS.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION Identifies the program to the computer. It also provide
documentation about the program
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION Define file-names and describe computer equipment used by
the program
DATA DIVISION Describe input and output format used by the program. Also
define constants and work areas necessary for processing the data
PROCEDURE DIVISION Instructions for reading input, processing and creating output
2. SECTIONS
A SECTION is a collection of related paragraphs.
The IDENTIFICATION DIVISION doesn’t contain any SECTIONs, the ENVIRONMENT AND DATA DIVISIONs have pre-defined SECTIONs that you may or may not include, depending on the requirement and the PROCEDURE DIVISION may contain only user defined SECTIONs.
A user defined SECTION is indicated by a user-defined word followed by the reserved word SECTION.
It is used mainly to divide the executable program into units that can be loaded and executed independently.
Thus, a program larger than the memory size can be accommodated in memory.
3. PARAGRAPHS & 4. SENTENCES
3)
A paragraph is a collection of sentences that form a logical unit in a COBOL program.
It is the basic unit of organisation of a COBOL program and is referred by a user-defined name in the program.
4)
A sentence is a sequence of one or more statements, ending with a period.
5. STATEMENTS
A statement is a valid combination of a COBOL verb and its operands.
It specifies an action to be taken by the object program.
The COBOL statements can be broadly classified into two types - Imperative statements
An imperative statement begins with a verb and specifies an unconditional action to be taken.
Conditional statements. A conditional statement is one in which the action
to be taken is determined by some condition that is evaluated when the program is executed.
6. RESERVED WORDS
A reserved word is a character-string with a predefined meaning in a COBOL source program.
There are several types of reserved words in COBOL. Keywords:- appear in uppercase.
Eg ADD, READ etc Optional Words:- They improve readability.
Eg GIVING, AFTER etc Figurative constants:- Refer to constant
values. Eg ZEROES, SPACES etc
7. USER DEFINED WORDS
They are constructed and used by the application programmer.
They are normally used to define paragraph names, SECTION names, file names, temporary variables, etc.,
The following are the rules for forming user-defined words. Length may be up to 30 characters. Only letters, digits and hyphen (-) are allowed. Embedded blanks are not allowed. At least one character must be alphabetic. Cannot be COBOL reserved words. May not begin or end with hyphen.
8. CHARACTERS
The most basic and indivisible unit of the COBOL language is the character.
The COBOL character set includes 78 characters that can be classified as letters of the alphabet, digits and special Characters.
COBOL coding sheet
Column numbers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
. . . . . . . 72 80
Column numbers
* Area A Area B I
D
E
N
T
I
F
I
C
A
T
I
O
N
A
R
E
A
-
/
COBOL coding rules
Each line is considered to be made up of 80 columns.
Columns 1 to 6 are reserved for sequence numbers.1 to 3 ---Page Number. 4 to 6 ---Line Number
Column 7 is an indicator column and has specialmeaning to the compiler.
Hyphen ( - ) indicates continuation. Slash ( / ) indicates comment line , forces page
break when printing source listing.
Asterisk ( * ) indicates comment line, no such page ejection.
Columns 8 to 11 are called Area A. All COBOL DIVISIONs, SECTIONs, paragraphs and some special entries must begin in Area A.
Columns 12 to 72 are called Area B. All COBOL statements must begin in Area B.
COBOL coding sheet
Almost all COBOL compilers treat a line of COBOL code as if it contained two distinct areas. These are -
AREA A
*) Between Column 8 to 11*) Division, Section, Paragraph names, FD entries & 01 level entries must start in Area A
AREA B
*) Between Column 12 to 72*) All Sentences & Statements start in Area B
coding rules
Columns 73 to 80 are identification area. Anything written in this area , will be ignored by the compiler but will appear in the source listing.
Columns 1-6 and 73-80 optional and rarely used today
Column 7 for continuation, comment, starting new page
Columns 8-72 for COBOL program statements
Column 7
/ (slash) forces page break when printing source listing
* (asterisk) designates entire line as comment
- (dash) to indicate continuation of nonnumeric literal
Margin Rules
Columns 8-72 divided into two areas
Area A - columns 8, 9, 10, 11
Area B - columns 12-72
Division, section and paragraph-names must all begin in Area A
First letter of name must begin in column 8, 9, 10 or 11
Entry may extend into Area B
All other statements, clauses, and sentences begin anywhere in Area B (column 12, 13, 14, etc.)
Select entries in ENVIRONMENT DIVISION
Data description entries in DATA DIVISION
All PROCEDURE DIVISION instructions
COBOL CHARACTER SET
Overview
Character Meaning
Space
+ Plus sign
- Minus sign or hyphen
* Asterisk
/ Forward slash or solidus
= Equal sign
$ or £ Currency sign
, Comma
; Semicolon
. Decimal point or period
" Quotation mark
( Left parenthesis
) Right parenthesis
> Greater than
< Less than
A-Z (26) Alphabet (uppercase)
a-z Alphabet (lowercase)
0-9 (10) Numeric characters
COBOL Words
0-9 , A-Z and - Hyphen
The total no of character must not be greater than 30.
One of the character must be a letter.
A word cannot begin with Hyphen.
A word must not contain a blank or special character except Hyfen (-)
A Cobol word can be User defined or reserve word
Valid words Invalid WordsGROSS-PAY -Gross-OVERTIME-HOURS OVERTIME HOURA 1-2-3B12-4 More than 30 characters
Data names and Identifiers
Data names are named memory locations.
Data Names must be described in the DATA DIVISION before they can be used in the PROCEDURE DIVISION.
Can be of elementary or group type.
Can be subscripted for Arrays.
Are user defined words.
Ingle data name or a data name qualified, indexed or subscripted is normally referred to by the general term identifier.
Valid data names: A12 sum-natural net-pay
Invalid: DATA ADD 45 46+2A
Rules for forming User-defined words/Data names
Can be at most 30 characters in length.
At least one alphabetic character.
Only alphabets, digits and hyphen are allowed.
Blanks are not allowed.
May not begin or end with a hyphen.
Should not be a COBOL reserved word like ADD,SUBTRACT,MOVE,DISPLAY etc….
Data-Name Guidelines
1. Use meaningful data-names that describe contents of field
2. Use prefixes or suffixes in data-names when appropriate
• -IN and -OUT for fields (Emp-Salary-IN and Emp-Salary-OUT)
• -FILE and -RECORD for file and record names
• Emp-File or Emp-Record
• Amount-Due-In instead of A1
Identify the valid data-names
• Identify the valid data-names
1. Date-Of-Birth
2. Amount$Out
3. -First-Name
4. 98-6
5. Time out
6. ADD
Literals
Literals are symbols whose value does not change in a program.
A data name may have different values at different points of time whereas a literal means the specific value which remains unchanged throughout the execution of the program. For this reason a literal is often called a constant.
Example--- MOVE 0 to sum. (Here 0 is literal)
There are 3 types of literals namely
(1) Numeric literals.
(2) Non-numeric literals.
(3) Figurative constants.
Rules for Numeric Literals
1. A numeric literal can be formed with the help of digits only.
2. The maximum number of digits allowed in a numeric literal varies from compiler to compiler. can have a maximum of 18 digits.
3. + or - sign may be included to left of first digit.
4. Decimal point permitted within literal. May not follow last digit.
Valid numeric literals
23 , +2359.4 , .125 , -68734
Rules for Nonnumeric Literals
• Composed of characters which are enclosed within quotation marks.
• Generally used for output messages or headings.
• Any character in COBOL character set except quotation mark.
• The maximum number of characters that are allowed is compiler dependent. ANSI 74: 120 characters.
Valid Nonnumeric Literals
“123 Main St.” “$14.99” “12,342” “Enter a value from 1 to 10”
Figurative Constants
These are literals representing values that may be frequently used by most programs.
These are given some fixed names and when the compiler recognizes these names it sets up the corresponding values in the object program.
Example--- MOVE ZERO TO sum. MOVE SPACES TO REPORT-REC.
The following is the list of figurative constants and their meanings.
Figurative constants Meaning
ZERO(S) or ZEROES Represents the value 0, one ormore depending on the context
SPACE(S) Represents one or more spaces
HIGH-VALUE(S) Represents the highest value
LOW-VALUE(S) Represents the lowest value
QUOTE(S) Represents single or double quotes
ALL ALL literalliteral Fill With Literal
Literals – Figurative Constants
Figurative Constants - Examples
01 GrossPay PIC 9(5)V99 VALUE 13.5.
MOVE TO GrossPay.
01 GrossPay PIC 9(5)V99 VALUE 13.5.
MOVE TO GrossPay.ZEROZEROSZEROES
01 StudentName PIC X(10) VALUE "MIKE".
MOVE ALL "-" TO StudentName.
01 StudentName PIC X(10) VALUE "MIKE".
MOVE ALL "-" TO StudentName.
StudentName
M I K E M I K E
GrossPay
0 0 0 1 3 5 0
Figurative Constants - Examples
01 GrossPay PIC 9(5)V99 VALUE 13.5.
MOVE TO GrossPay.
01 GrossPay PIC 9(5)V99 VALUE 13.5.
MOVE TO GrossPay.ZEROZEROSZEROES
01 StudentName PIC X(10) VALUE "MIKE".
MOVE ALL "-" TO StudentName.
01 StudentName PIC X(10) VALUE "MIKE".
MOVE ALL "-" TO StudentName.
StudentName
- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - -
GrossPay
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Continuation of Lines
A statement or an entry may be continued to the area B of the next line as and when necessary.
A hyphen(-) is used in the indicator field for continuation of lines.
Actually, a hyphen in the indicator field means that the first non-blank character in the area B of the current line is the character immediately following the last non-blank character of the previous line.
Example—In case of non numeric literal
Indicator lineArea A Area B
Continued line “Enter the
Continuation Line - “Number”.
Is Cobol still used ?
75% of all business data is processed in COBOL.
There are between 180 billion and 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use worldwide.
15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) through 2009 will be in COBOL.
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