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OpenCOBOL Features †
Features already implemented †
- Part of COBOL 85
- Part of COBOL 2002
- Part of IBM COBOL
- Part of Micro Focus COBOL
- Intrinsic functions
From 1991 Intrinsic Functions Amendment - ACOS, ANNUITY, ASIN, ATAN, CHAR, COS, CURRENT-DATE, DATE-OF-INTEGER, DAY-OF-INTEGER, FACTORIAL, INTEGER, INTEGER-OF-DATE, INTEGER-OF-DAY, INTEGER-PART, LENGTH, LOG, LOG10, LOWER-CASE, MAX, MEAN, MEDIAN, MIDRANGE, MIN, MOD, NUMVAL, NUMVAL-C, ORD, ORD-MAX, ORD-MIN, PRESENT-VALUE, RANDOM, RANGE, REM, REVERSE, SIN, SQRT, STANDARD-DEVIATION, SUM, TAN, UPPER-CASE, VARIANCE, WHEN-COMPILED,
From the 2002 Standard
- ABS, BYTE-LENGTH, DAY-TO-YYYYDDD, DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD, E, EXCEPTION-FILE, EXCEPTION-LOCATION, EXCEPTION-STATEMENT, EXCEPTION-STATUS, EXP, EXP10, FRACTION-PART, LOCALE-DATE, LOCALE-TIME, PI, SIGN, TEST-DATE-YYYYMMDD, YEAR-TO-YYYY
From draft of next revision:
- SECONDS-FROM-FORMATTED-TIME, SECONDS-PAST-MIDNIGHT, TRIM,
From extensions in other compilers:
- STORED-CHAR-LENGTH,
Unique to OpenCOBOL 1.1 pre-release
- CONCATENATE, SUBSTITUTE, SUBSTITUTE-CASE
Features not implemented †
- Intrinsic functions
- BOOLEAN-OF-INTEGER, CHAR-NATIONAL, DAY-TO-YYYYMMM, DISPLAY-OF, EXCEPTION-FILE-N, EXCEPTION-LOCATION-N, HIGHEST-ALGEBRAIC, INTEGER-OF-BOOLEAN, LOCALE-COMPARE, LOWEST-ALGEBRAIC, NATIONAL-OF, NUMVAL-F, STANDARD-COMPARE, TEST-DAY-YYYYDDD,, TEST-NUMVAL, TEST-NUMVAL-C, TEST-NUMVAL-F
- SCREEN SECTION
Update: SCREEN SECTION is now in OC 1.1 pre-release, and working out pretty well. ToDo still includes edit by PICTURE
- Embedded SQL
Features won't be implemented †
- COMMUNICATION SECTION
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Last-modified: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:49:10 GMT (1587d)
Last-modified: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:49:10 GMT (1587d)




