COBOL for Windows supports the following industry standards:
ISO 1989:1985 is identical to ANSI INCITS 23-1985 (R2001), Programming Languages - COBOL
ISO/IEC 1989/AMD1:1992 is identical to ANSI INCITS 23a-1989 (R2001), Programming Languages - Intrinsic Function Module for COBOL
All required modules are supported at the highest level defined by the standard.
The following optional modules of the standard are supported:
The Report Writer optional module of the standard is supported with the optional VisualAge® for COBOL Report Writer product.
The following optional modules of the standard are not supported:
All required modules are supported at the highest level defined by the standard.
The following optional modules of the standard are supported:
The following optional modules of the standard are not supported:
COBOL for Windows has the following restriction related to COBOL standards: