IBM Mainframe Forum

Deepak kumar25 wrote:any one give me suggestion to how i run a cobol program.

if u r using cobol-85 u need to go to the DOS prompt : type NCOBOL <filename>.cob to create executable file then to compile type RUNCOB <filename>
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sunilkaylan,

You are the second person in this thread to suggest a PC solution. If you had been aware of almost anything you'd know this forum is to do with IBM mainframes, which don't have a DOS prompt. Please make suggestions relevant to what is asked and the environment of IBM mainframes.

the first one was a spammer, the second is a troll