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Cobol Hello World Example: How To Write, Compile and Execute Cobol Program on Linux OS
by Ramesh Natarajan on February 26, 2010
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Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Cobol program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example? Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Cobol program and execute cobol program on Linux or Unix OS.

1. Write a Hello World Cobol Program

Create the helloworld program using the Vim editor as shown below.
$ vim helloworld IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD. * simple hello world program PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY 'Hello world!'. STOP RUN.

Note: Comment in Cobol starts with *.

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2. Make sure Cobol Compiler is installed on your system

Make sure Cobol compiler is installed on your system as shown below.
$ whereis cobc cobc: /usr/bin/cobc /usr/share/man/man1/cobc.1.gz $ which cobc /usr/bin/cobc

Installing cobc compiler

If you dont have cobol compiler, install it as shown below.

$ sudo apt-get install open-cobol

3. Compile the cobol program

Compile the HelloWorld which will create the HelloWorld executable.
$ cobc -free -x -o helloworld-exe helloworld $ ls helloworld

helloworld-exe*

-free use free source format. Without this option cobol program requires certain format. -x build executable program. -o FILE place the output file into the specified FILE.

4. Execute the cobol Program

Execute by mentioning the program name.
$./helloworld-exe Hello World!
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Tags: cobc -free, Cobol Compiler, Cobol Tutorial, Hello World Cobol Program, Hello World Examples { 18 comments read them below or add one } 1 jacobian February 26, 2010 at 4:48 am very useful.thanks for sharing.but anyway I thought cobol is an obsolete programming

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language. 2 jumpingj February 26, 2010 at 7:43 am Nice!!! 3 Catalin February 27, 2010 at 3:13 am Cobol is not very old programming language. I see on http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/COBOL. I think is more useful to try python Anyway is a nice article . 4 David April 30, 2010 at 7:53 am Ramesh as always great post, Two quick question: Does this compiler include Runtime? If not would you happen to know if there is any free Cobol Runtime licenses? Thanks in advance David 5 John August 19, 2010 at 10:44 pm Compile fails with cannot find lncurses 6 Bhavesh Shah September 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm i am getting Problem while creating and using Vim,Cobol compiler. Can any one help me out. 7 BigBert December 21, 2010 at 6:39 pm Important note on Debian / Ubuntu machines: OpenCobol cannot find ncurse, so compile will fail. To fix this: Edit ld.so: sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf and add /usr/local/lib to the file. eg: include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib Create symbolic link to ncurses: sudo ln /lib/libncurses.so.5.7 /lib/libncurses.so Re-run ld config: sudo ldconfig

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8 gowri shankar February 7, 2011 at 11:38 pm how to run the cobol program in z/OS. 9 ashish March 28, 2011 at 2:02 pm program is to be currect i know but how it will run on cobol compiler plz tell me. 10 idams h. chinwe May 31, 2011 at 10:08 am A lot of lecturers make it difficult for students to learn COBOL but it will be easy if you allow student to learn directly via the way you solved that very simple HELLO program. I bet i learn t a bit from that program you just wrote. 11 Risk-Taker June 8, 2011 at 10:21 pm Just wandering what is the best COBOL Compiler for college students? how to compile COBOL program and can you please give me a sample program based on that version of COBOL. Tnx 12 minwet September 9, 2011 at 1:17 am The best compiler can be found in Pre historic caves package in adobe boxes. 13 sirisha October 28, 2011 at 10:48 pm how to install cobol program 14 Oguilaya fidelis February 21, 2012 at 12:20 pm I need some one to teach me a COBOL progame. 15 jha October 10, 2012 at 11:44 pm i want to learn more about cobol .and how to compile a cobol program????? 16 nardzkie October 10, 2012 at 11:48 pm nice to learn more about cobol..i love itcan you give some other example of program by using cobol.,??? 17 ATHI October 30, 2012 at 12:49 pm why only linux or unix are recommanded , if we can use in other os like windows how can we use it? 18 Eddie Sullivan Jr June 1, 2013 at 11:25 pm My I have information on how to install a cobo compiler and editor, the files Leave a Comment Name

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