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word [Cobol/Syntax]
A character string of not more than 30 characters that forms a user-defined word, a system-name, a reserved word, or a f ...
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION [Cobol/Syntax]
The section of the DATA DIVISION that describes working-storage data items, composed either of noncontiguous items or wo ...
wrapper [Cobol/Syntax]
An object that provides an interface between object-oriented code and procedure-oriented code. Using wrappers lets progr ...
X [Cobol/Syntax]
The symbol in a PICTURE clause that can hold any character in the character set of the computer.
year field expansion [Cobol/Syntax]
Explicit expansion of date fields that contain two-digit years to contain four-digit years in files and databases, and t ...
zoned decimal data item [Cobol/Syntax]
An external decimal data item that is described implicitly or explicitly as USAGE DISPLAY and that contains a valid comb ...