Introduction

Introduction

This guide contains reference material for writing applications programs in the COBOL language to use CA IDMS/DB, CA IDMS/DC, and CA IDMS UCF services.

This guide is intended to be used by COBOL programmers whose programs access CA IDMS databases and who want to use the DC/UCF system facilities Programmers using Assembler language or PL/I should refer to CA IDMS DML Reference Guide for Assembler or CA IDMS DML Reference Guide for PL/I.

Copying and Pasting COBOL Code from this Guide

COBOL compiler requires that the source code is correctly indented.

To preserve the indention of code examples in this guide, copy the code examples from the HTML version of the guide. Copying from the PDF format does not preserve the indention; it is necessary to restore the indention manually after pasting.