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RENAMES Clause

In COBOL, the REDEFINES and RENAMES clauses are used to manipulate data layout and...

ID Division

The Identification or ID division is the first and mandatory division in every COBOL400...

Financial Functions

ANNUITY Function In ILE COBOL, the ANNUITY function simplifies calculations related to annuities. It...

Statistical Functions

MEAN Function The MEAN intrinsic function, in ILE COBOL, calculates the arithmetic mean of...

Date-Time Functions

CURRENT-DATE Function CURRENT-DATE function, in ILE COBOL, generates current date in YYYYMMDD format, current...

Numerical Functions

FACTORIAL Function In ILE COBOL, the FACTORIAL function returns an integer that is the...

General Functions

NUMVAL Function NUMVAL function, in ILE COBOL, converts an alphanumeric string to a numeric...

String Functions

LENGTH Function LENGTH function, in ILE COBOL program, returns the count of number of...

Switch Handling

SWITCH is completely an IBM i-Series platform environment feature. IBM i system provides some...