BS EN ISO 1989:1996

Section I: INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Standard
Chapter 2: Summary of the elements by module
Chapter 3: Summary of elements by COBOL division
Section II: CONCEPTS
1 Introduction
2 Files
3 Report writer
4 Table handling
5 Shared memory area
6 Program and run unit organization and
            communication
7 Communication facility
Section III: GLOSSARY
1 Introduction
2 Definitions
Section IV: OVERALL LANGUAGE CONSIDERATION
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Notation used in formats
Chapter 3: Rules
Chapter 4: Language concepts
Chapter 5: A COBOL source program
Chapter 6: Divisions
Chapter 7: Reference format
Chapter 8: COBOL reserved words
Section V: COMPOSITE LANGUAGE SKELETON
Section VI: NUCLEUS MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the nucleus module
Chapter 2: A COBOL source program
Chapter 3: Identification division in the nucleus
            module
Chapter 4: Environment division in the nucleus module
Chapter 5: Data division in the nucleus module
Chapter 6: Procedure division in the nucleus module
Chapter 7: Debugging in the nucleus module
Section VII: SEQUENTIAL I-O MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the sequential I-O module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the sequential I-O
            module
Chapter 3: Data division in the sequential I-O module
Chapter 4: Procedure division in the sequential I-O
            module
Section VIII: RELATIVE I-O MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the relative I-O module
Chapter 2: Environmental division in the relative I-O
            module
Chapter 3: Data division in the relative I-O module
Chapter 4: Procedure division in the relative I-O
            module
Section IX: INDEXED I-O MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the indexed I-O module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the indexed I-O
            module
Chapter 3: Data division in the indexed I-O module
Chapter 4: Procedure division in the indexed I-O module
Section X: INTER-PROGRAM COMMUNICATION MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the inter-program
            communication module
Chapter 2: Nested source program
Chapter 3: Identification division in the inter-program
            communication module
Chapter 4: Data division in the inter-program
            communication module
Chapter 5: Procedure division in the inter-program
            communication module
Section XI: SORT-MERGE MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the sort-merge module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the sort-merge
            module
Chapter 3: Data division in the sort-merge module
Chapter 4: Procedure division in the sort-merge module
Section XII: SOURCE TEXT MANIPULATION MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the source text manipulation
            module
Chapter 2: The COPY statement
Chapter 3: The REPLACE statement
Section XIII: REPORT WRITER MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the report writer module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the report writer
            module
Chapter 3: Data division in the report writer module
Chapter 4: Procedure division in the report writer
            module
Section XIV: COMMUNICATION MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the communication module
Chapter 2: Data division in the communication module
Chapter 3: Procedure division in the communication
            module
Section XV: DEBUG MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the debug module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the debug module
Chapter 3: Procedure division in the debug module
Section XVI: SEGMENTATION MODULE
Chapter 1: Introduction to the segmentation module
Chapter 2: Environment division in the segmentation
            module
Chapter 3: Procedure division in the segmentation
            module
Section XVIII: APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: THE HISTORY OF COBOL
Chapter 1: The development of COBOL
Chapter 2: The evolution of CODASYL COBOL
Chapter 3: The standardization of COBOL
Chapter 4: International standardization of COBOL
APPENDIX B: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD
             STANDARD COBOL
Chapter 1: Summary of differences between second and
            third standard COBOL
Chapter 2: Substantive changes
APPENDIX C: LANGUAGE ELEMENT LISTS
Chapter 1: Obsolete language element list
Chapter 2: Implementor-defined language element list
Chapter 3: Hardware dependent language element list
Chapter 4: Undefined language element list
INDEX