ACCEPT Statement (JVM COBOL) Takes data keyed at the console or supplied by the operating system and makes it available to the program in a specified data
item.
CONTINUE Statement (JVM COBOL) The CONTINUE statement is a no operation statement, indicating that no executable statement is present.
DECLARE Statement (JVM COBOL) 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 (JVM COBOL) Divides one numeric data item into others and sets the values of data items equal to the quotient and remainder.
EVALUATE Statement (JVM COBOL) 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.
IF Statement (JVM COBOL) Evaluates a condition and takes subsequent action depending on whether the value of the condition is true or false.
INSPECT Statement (JVM COBOL) Provides the ability to perform tally, replace, tally and replace, and convert and tally trailing operations on a data item.
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 (JVM COBOL) 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 (JVM COBOL) 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 (JVM COBOL) Concatenates the partial or complete contents of two or more data items into a single data item.
SYNC Statement (JVM COBOL) 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 (JVM COBOL) The TRY...CATCH...FINALLY...END-TRY structure is the basis for structured exception handling.
UNSTRING Statement (JVM COBOL) Separates contiguous data in a sending field and places it into multiple receiving fields.