The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud — Part 5: Lets display a variable
If you remember in PART 3 we, going trough the divisions and there where we saw that there is a “DATA DIVISION”
DATA DIVISION — description (s) and definition (s) of data items referenced by the program (names, lengths, decimal point location, formats, and other)Data division explanation from part 3
The “DATA DIVISION” takes care of not only the defining and describing data items.It also refers to the items and all memory allocations that are required and used in the program in order to manipulate data.
It consists of 3 main sections ( FILE SECTION, WORKING-STORAGE SECTION, LINKAGE SECTION), but in order to keep it short and on the point we will use the:
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