COMPUTE Statement Assigns to one or more data items the value of an arithmetic expression.
CONTINUE Statement The CONTINUE statement is a no operation statement, indicating that no executable statement is present.
DECLARE Statement Declares one or more local variables within the procedure division body. The scope of any inline local variable is from the
point of declaration until the end of the innermost containing block, where paragraphs, sections and the whole method are
considered to be blocks.
DIVIDE Statement Divides one numeric data item into others and sets the values of data items equal to the quotient and remainder.
EVALUATE Statement Describes a multi-branch, multi-join structure, which can evaluate multiple conditions. The subsequent action of the run-time
element depends on the results of these evaluations.
EXIT Statement Causes an exit from a perform loop, method or iterator.
MOVE Statement Transfers data to one or more data areas.
MULTIPLY Statement Multiplies numeric data items and sets the values of data items equal to the results.
PERFORM Statement (JVM COBOL) Controls execution of a statement block in the scope of the PERFORM statement. This statement can also process each element
of an array or collection.
SET Statement Can set the size of an array; initialize the contents of an array and set the size accordingly; and set the value of a data
item or a boolean data item.
SUBTRACT Statement Subtracts one, or the sum of two or more, numeric data items from one or more items, and set the values of one or more items
equal to the results.
STRING Statement Concatenates the partial or complete contents of two or more data items into a single data item.
SYNC Statement Marks a statement block as a critical section by obtaining the mutual-exclusion lock for a given object, executing a block
of statements, and then releasing the lock.
TRY Statement The TRY...CATCH...FINALLY...END-TRY structure is the basis for structured exception handling.
UNSTRING Statement Separates contiguous data in a sending field and places it into multiple receiving fields.