This describes the base COBOL language supported by this system: this COBOL language is based on the ANSI COBOL standards X3.23-1985, X3.23a-1989 and X3.23b-1993, and is supported by a number of COBOL systems. In addition, support has been added for some of the features from ISO/IEC 1989:2002, Programming language COBOL.

COBOL is an industry language and is not the property of any company or group of companies, or of any organization or group of organizations.

No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by any contributor or by the CODASYL Programming Language Committee as to the accuracy and functioning of the programming system and language. Moreover, no responsibility is assumed by any contributor, or by the committee, in connection herewith.

The authors and copyright holders of the copyrighted material used herein:

• FLOW-MATIC Programming for the Univac I and II, Data Automation Systems copyrighted 1958,1959, by Sperry Rand Corporation; IBM Commercial Translator Form No. F28-8013, copyrighted 1959 by IBM; FACT, DSI27A5260-2760, copyrighted 1960 by Minneapolis-Honeywell

have specifically authorized the use of this material in whole or in part, in the COBOL specifications. Such authorization extends to the reproduction and use of COBOL specifications in programming manuals or similar publications.