1. SCOPE TERMINATORS Definition:
For Your Information
FOR THE PROCEDURE DIVISION:
A period will end every “open” logical control structure currently begun.
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READ INPUT-FD AT END MOVE “yes” TO EOF
PERFORM 200-CALC UNTIL EOF = “yes”
MOVE INPUT-REC TO OUTPUT-REC
WRITE OUTPUT-REC
RULE OF THUMB:
Always use END-STRUCTURE delimiters and you will only need a period at the end of every paragraph.
Indentation has NOTHING to do with the logic of the program!!!
Definition:
Delimits the end of a logical control construct or the end of a statement with clauses.
DELIMITER = a character that begins or ends a unit of data
DELIMIT = to fix or define the limits of
Examples:
END-READ
END-PERFORM
END-COMPUTE (etc…)
period
Statement Syntax

2. ACCEPT DATE Purpose:  accepts current date from the computer system
Syntax Definition:
ACCEPT identifier
FROM DATE [YYYYMMDD].
Examples:
01 TODAYS-DATE PIC 9(6).
01 TODAYS-DATE.
05 TODAYS-YR PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-MM PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-DD PIC 99.
For Your Information
The default format for the date is YYMMDD.
If using the YYYYMMDD format option, the pic clause for todays-date is 9(8) and todays-yr is 9(4).
Statement Syntax

3. ACCEPT TIME Purpose:  accepts current time from the computer system
Syntax Definition:
ACCEPT identifier
FROM TIME [YYYYMMDD].
Examples:
01 TODAYS-TIME PIC 9(6).
01 TODAYS-TIME.
05 TODAYS-YR PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-MM PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-DD PIC 99.
For Your Information
The default format for the date is HHMMSSss.
Statement Syntax