Data transformations yes; reports were one case, but not the only one. The sample application in the FLOW-MATIC manual (online at Bitsavers) is a tape-to-tape j

Data transformations yes; reports were one case, but not the only one. The sample application in the FLOW-MATIC manual (online at Bitsavers) is a tape-to-tape job. (And there's quite a bit of stuff in COBOL, including things like MOVE CORRESPONDING, which suddenly make a lot more sense if you start to think of it as SQL for fixed-format records on tape drives.) http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/flow-matic/ http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/flow-matic/