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I-O-CONTROL [Cobol/Syntax]
The name of an ENVIRONMENT DIVISION paragraph in which object program requirements for rerun points, sharing of same are ...
I-O-CONTROL entry [Cobol/Syntax]
An entry in the I-O-CONTROL paragraph of the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION; this entry contains clauses that provide information ...
IBM COBOL extension [Cobol/Standards]
COBOL syntax and semantics supported by IBM compilers in addition to those described in Standard COBOL 85.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION [Cobol/Syntax]
One of the four main component parts of a COBOL program, class definition, or method definition. The IDENTIFICATION DIVI ...
identifier [Cobol/Syntax]
A syntactically correct combination of character strings and separators that names a data item. When referencing a data ...
imperative statement [Cobol/Syntax]
A statement that either begins with an imperative verb and specifies an unconditional action to be taken or is a conditi ...
implicit scope terminator [Cobol/Syntax]
A separator period that terminates the scope of any preceding unterminated statement, or a phrase of a statement that by ...
index [Cobol/Syntax]
A computer storage area or register, the content of which represents the identification of a particular element in a tab ...
index data item [Cobol/Syntax]
A data item in which the values associated with an index-name can be stored in a form specified by the implementor.
index-name [Cobol/Syntax]
A user-defined word that names an index associated with a specific table.