The Base Toolkit - COBOL details

In the COBOL library for the Base Toolkit, you will find 11 members, including code that demonstrates:

• Accepting and working with PARM data from the EXEC statement
• Working with files containing fixed length records and variable length records
• Static and dynamic invocation of subroutines
• Coding subroutines
• Report logic
• Simple table handling
• Using the following language features:
• Mixed case code
• Packed-decimal instead of comp-3
• Binary instead of comp
• Unnamed filler
• Blank lines in code
• Accept ... from date
• Move corresponding
• In-line perform
• End-if
• Set level-88-name to true
• Continue
• Intrinsic function lower-case
• Intrinsic function sum
• Intrinsic function current-date
• Intrinsic function year-to-yyyy
• Reference modification
• Use of ALL for index of table
• Multiple currency symbols, including the Euro
• Floating currency symbols
• Call ... returning
• Procedure division header with returning
• Local-storage section
• COBOL SORT statement
• String handling

In addition, the User's Guide discusses how to:

• Code PROCESS statements
• Use the OPTFILE option to tell the compiler to look in SYSOPTF for more compiler parms
• Use the SYSOPTF DD statement for compiler parms (Enterprise COBOL V4R1 and later)

Related curriculum: COBOL courses.