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Explanation of Identification Division A Division is a block of code, which contains one or more sections or set of sections or set of sentences or block of statements. It begins with division name and ends at the beginning of the next division or at the end of the program. Divisions are known as system defined words. All Divisions should be coded in...

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Structure of COBOL Program The Structure of the Cobol applies for COBOL Source Program which has set of syntactically correct set of statements. In other words, COBOL Source Program contains set of syntactically correct set of statements. Cobol Programs contains hierarchical in structure which was shown in the above diagram. The COBOL Program hierarchy consists of Divisions, Sections, Paragraphs, Sentences and Statements. In...

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Cobol Coding Sheet In olden days, COBOL programs needs to be punched on the card and it will be loaded to punch card reader. For to identify the program coding by the punch card reader,there was a need of coding sheet. The Cobol coding sheet was a structure to identify from where the cobol coding statements punched or started writing to differentiate the...

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Introduction to Cobol Cobol is an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language where it is primarily developed for Business, Finance and Administrative System Needs. It is a high-level programming language very first developed by CODASYL committee (Conference on data systems languages) in the early of the 1960s (the first compiler is implemented in the same year). After that, it was assigned to the...

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