COBOL still rocks in the Steel City!
In a word, YES! Allow me to repeat some statistics I’ve quoted in other posts… Over 70% of all business systems around the world still run on COBOL. This includes credit card transactions, ATMs, ticket purchasing systems, retail systems, banking … Read More »
COBOL allows you to accept a number of data items from the operating system, including current date. ACCEPT WS-YYMMDD FROM DATE. This statement will return a six-digit date in the format of YYMMDD. The variable WS-YYMMDD must be defined in … Read More »
Are you like some of my colleagues who scoff at COBOL and think the world would be a better place without it? What comes to mind when you hear the word COBOL? Outdated, ancient, old-school technology? A dying language? Really? … Read More »
So let’s take a look at a COBOL program that can be used as a simple calculator… Notice the PROCEDURE DIVISION has only one paragraph. Let’s parse this paragraph line by line and see what its doing. DISPLAY “COBOL CALCULATOR” … Read More »