This edition includes a revised disk, a full account of the problem, and an in-depth consideration of its relevance to COBOL. It also discusses other issues that could have a profound impact on information processing in the new century.· An Introduction to Structured Program Design in COBOL· The Data Division· Designing and Debugging Batch and Interactive COBOL Programs· Decision Making Using the If and Evaluate Statements· Iteration: Beyond the Basic Perform· Control Break Processing· Data Validation· Array Processing and Table Handling· Sequential File Processing· Sorting and Merging· Indexed and Relative File Processing· The Report Writer Module· An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming