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.

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