Question

How do you handle the exceptions in COBOL programming?

Answer 1

Micro Focus Managed COBOL has a powerful and flexible exception handling system evolved from similar systems in Java, VB and C#. Here is a quick introduction.

The 2002 standard for COBOL did introduce an exception handling mechanism. However, this mechanism has not proved to be very popular amongst COBOL programmers. The direction of Managed COBOL has been to take advantage of the lessons learned in Java and C# and introduce the object orientation and exception handling mechanisms which are popular in those languages whilst retaining the unique, readable nature of COBOL.