Cobol divisions other than the 4

brindha b · New User Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

Is any other cobol division available other than default divisions like environment division, identification, data and procedure division. If yes what are they and where i can find information about it?

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

depending on the cobol that you are using, there are reference and user guides to all the cobol manuals listed under the manuals' link at the top of the page.

brindha b · New User Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

The manuals are also dealing with the same four divisions. I didn't find any extra divisions in the manual.

Anuj D. · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

Hi,

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UmeySan · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Aren't that enough divisions for you. Is there any reason to want some more ???

Regards, UmeySan

brindha b · New User Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

I heard like some division exists for report writing. Thats why i asked.

UmeySan · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

Hi Brindha !

ReportWriter is an old feature of Cobol. I used it in the early 19sixties.

COBOL Report Writer is COBOL's own built-in non-procedural facility for the production of printed output. It enables you to define and produce all the listings, reports, and displayed summaries that would normally be required from a COBOL application, but in far less time. It allows many more printed outputs, which might have been produced previously using stand-alone non-COBOL report generators, to be done in COBOL, because it reduces greatly the time and effort needed to code and test a COBOL program with printed output.

At IBM on the Web, you could find more information. Please have a look:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobolreportwriter/about/

Regards, UmeySan

brindha b · New User Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

Thank you all and thank you Mr.Umeysan for the link.

UmeySan · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

Your'e wellcome !

UmeySan