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A constant or fixed value that may contain up to 160 characters in the COBOL character set (except a quote); such literals are enclosed in quotes.
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Alphanumeric literal
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The process of using a file of transaction records along with an existing master file to produce a new master file.
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Batch update procedure
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A single letter, digit or special symbol. Fields such as NAME or SALARY are composed of individual characters.
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Characters
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The full set of characters that may be used in a COBOL program.
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COBOL character set
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A fixed value or literal that is used in a program.
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Constant
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A field used to sum the number of occurrences of a given condition.
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Counter field
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One of the four major divisions of a COBOL program; it defines and describes all data to be used in a program.
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DATA DIVISION
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The name assigned to each field, record and file in a COBOL program. A data-name, unlike an identifier, may not be subscripted or qualified.
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Data-name
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A field that contains a PIC clause; a field that is not further subdivided.
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Elementary item
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Entries used to describe an input or output file.
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FD (File Description)
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A group of consecutive characters used to represent a unit of information; for example, a NAME field or an AMOUNT field.
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Field
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A COBOL reserved word, such as SPACES or ZEROS, where the word denotesthe actual value; for example, MOVE ZEROS TO TOTAL will result in all 0's in the field called TOTAL.
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Figurative constant
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The section of the DATA DIVISION in which input and output files are defined and descrbed.
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FILE SECTION
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A COBOL reserved word used to designate field that will not be accessed by the program.
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FILLER
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Records within a file that are all the same length.
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Fixed-length record
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