# Hello World! in COBOL

**URL:** <https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379>\
**Category:** COBOL technical questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379 "2020-04-27T20:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![vuillaume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ce73a5/32.png) [@vuillaume](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/vuillaume)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/hello-world-in-cobol/5379/2 "2020-04-29T12:01:18Z")

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Congratulations and keep it up.

I also struggled trying to compile my first Hello World because of things like particular indentation (which I was unaware of) and JCL script to send in batch mode.

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