COBOL Script: a business-oriented scripting language

Author

Imajo, Tetsuji ; Miyake, Tatsuki ; Sato, Shinpbu ; Ito, Toshiyuki ; Yokotsuka, Daisuke ; Tsujihata, Yoshihide ; Uemura, Shunsuke

Author_Institution

Software Div., Hitachi Ltd., Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

240

Abstract

This paper describes COBOL Script, a Web-oriented script language developed by Hitachi. COBOL Script includes the following features: (1) The language specifications, which consist of functions required for Web computing, are a subset of COBOL85, the most frequently used programming language in business information systems. (2) COBOL Script supports decimal arithmetic functions that have the same precision as in standard COBOL85 on mainframe computers. (3) Efficient implementation was based on analysis of the pros and cons of the COBOL processing system. Using COBOL Script, users can: (1) Process applications requiring high precision, such as account-related applications, over the Web. (2) Use a test debugger and a Coverage Function with COBOL Script for large-scale development projects. (3) Use Japanese in programs. (4) Achieve good run-time performance

Keywords

COBOL; electronic commerce; COBOL Script; COBOL processing system; COBOL85; Web computing; Web-oriented script language; account-related applications; business information systems; business-oriented scripting language; decimal arithmetic functions; language specifications; large-scale development projects; test debugger; Application software; Computer languages; Digital arithmetic; Graphical user interfaces; HTML; Information analysis; Information systems; Java; Programming profession; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2000. EDOC 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International

Conference_Location

Makuhari

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0865-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2000.882363

Filename

882363