[skissane]

> COBOL doesn't do form handling. That would be CICS or IMS/DC software which the COBOL interfaces with

The COBOL 2002 standard includes form handling ("SCREEN SECTION"). However, IBM COBOL implementations never included that, and so you are correct that on IBM mainframes stuff like CICS and IMS/DC is used instead. Some COBOL compilers on other platforms did implement "SCREEN SECTION", e.g. Micro Focus COBOL on Windows/Unix, DEC COBOL on OpenVMS, Tandem NonStop COBOL, and COBOL software developed for those platforms did use it. It is also true that non-IBM mainframe COBOL is likely a minority of all COBOL software still in use.

[lokedhs]

GNU COBOL also implements it, and I have to admit that it's kind of fun to play around with.