ILE COBOL is designed to support Standard COBOL. Standard COBOL refers to
the COBOL programming language as defined in the document entitled American
National Standard for Information Systems - Programming Language - COBOL,
ANSI X3.23-1985, ISO 1989:1985, updated with the content of the following
documents, in the order they are listed:
- ANSI X3.23a-1989, American National Standard for Information Systems -
Programming Language - Intrinsic Function Module for COBOL and ISO 1989:1985/
Amd.1:1992
- Programming Languages - COBOL, AMENDMENT 1: Intrinsic function module
- ANSI X3.23b-1993, American National Standard for Information Systems -
Programming Language - Correction Amendment for COBOL
- ISO/IEC 1989 DAM2 Programming Languages - COBOL, AMENDMENT 2: Correction
and clarification amendment for COBOL.
- FIPS Publication 21-4, Federal
Information Processing Standard 21-4, COBOL
From this point on, the term Standard COBOL will be used to refer to the
ANSI standard just described.
Portions of this manual are copied from the X3.23b-1993, American National Standard for Information
Systems - Programming Language - COBOL and ISO 1989:1985/Amd
2:1994, Programming languages - COBOL and are reproduced with permission from these publications (copyright
1985 by the American National Standards Institute), copies of which you can
purchase from the American National Standard Institute at 1430 Broadway, New
York, New York, 10018.
The COBOL language is maintained by the ANSI Technical Committee X3J4.
Refer to Appendix A of the IBM Rational Development Studio for i: ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide for more information on
the industry standards supported by the ILE COBOL compiler.