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windowed date field [Cobol/Syntax]
A date field containing a windowed (two-digit) year. See also date field and windowed year.
windowed year [Cobol/Syntax]
A date field that consists only of a two-digit year. This two-digit year can be interpreted using a century window. For ...
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 ...
workstation [Cobol/Context]
A generic term for computers used by end users including personal computers, 3270 terminals, intelligent workstations, a ...
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.
XML [Cobol/Context]
Extensible Markup Language. A standard metalanguage for defining markup languages that was derived from and is a subset ...
XML data [Cobol/Context]
Data that is organized into a hierarchical structure with XML elements. The data definitions are defined in XML element ...
XML declaration [Cobol/Context]
XML text that specifies characteristics of the XML document such as the version of XML being used and the encoding of th ...