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Procedure Division Statements

ACCEPT transfers information from an input device or system information (eg. date or time) into a defined data area.
ADD adds one or more numeric operands and stores the result.
CALL transfers control from one program to another. When execution of the called program finishes, execution returns to the next statement in the calling program.
CANCEL ensures that every time a program is called, all values are reset prior to the next execution.
CLOSE closes a sequential or VSAM file at the completion of processing.
COMPUTE evaluates an arithmetic expression and stores the result.
CONTINUE is basically a placeholder statement to use where a statement is required but no statement is needed.
DELETE deletes a record from a relative or indexed file.
DISPLAY sends contents of the specified field(s) to an output device.
DIVIDE divides one numeric value by or into another.
ENTRY establishes an alternate entry point into the program.
EVALUATE evaluates a series of conditions and takes one of a number of different actions depending on the result.
EXIT Provides a common exit point for a series of paragraphs.
EXIT PROGRAM terminates the current program.
GOBACK terminates the current program.
IF evaluates an expression and executes one of two alternatives depending on whether the expression is true or false.
INITIALIZE moves a specified value into a data area.
INSPECT count or replace characters in a data area.
MERGE takes two files based on common keys and merges them together.
MOVE copies the content of one data area to another.
MULTIPLY multiplies two numeric values and stores the result.
OPEN open a sequential or VSAM file to be processed by this program.
PERFORM transfers control to the specified routine and controls how many times it will be executed.
READ read a record from an external file into a data area.
RELEASE used in the input procedure of an internal sort to pass the current record into the sort.
RETURN used in the output procedure of an internal sort or merge to retrieve the next record.
REWRITE updates the current record in a VSAM file.
SEARCH searches a table of data until an entry matching the specified search criteria is found.
SET used to change table indexes, set status codes to external switches, set values of conditional variables, or set values to pointer data areas.
SORT sorts records on a specified key
START establishes position within a VSAM file.
STRING used to concatenate several data areas into one.
SUBTRACT subtract the content of one numeric value from another and store the result.
UNSTRING takes a contiguous data area and splits it into several separate data fields.
WRITE write a record to a file.