Accredited Standards Committee X3

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Accredited Standards Committee X3 is a U.S. standards body historically responsible for developing information technology and programming language standards, including those for SQL and COBOL.

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instanceOf U.S. national standards committee
standards organization
activity developing and maintaining IT standards
alsoKnownAs X3
category information technology standards body
programming language standards committee
collaboratesWith IEC
ISO
ISO/IEC JTC 1
country United States
field information technology
programming languages
focus voluntary consensus standards
governance operated under ANSI accreditation
historicalRole primary U.S. body for IT standards before reorganization into INCITS
influenced international IT standardization through ISO and IEC participation
notableStandardSeries ANSI X3.135 SQL
linked to: ISO/IEC 9075

ANSI X3.23 COBOL
linked to: COBOL
parentOrganization American National Standards Institute
regionServed United States
responsibleForStandard C programming language
COBOL
Fortran
Information Systems – Data Management
linked to: Information systems

PL/I
Programming Language MUMPS
SQL
scope development of American National Standards for information processing systems
standardization of database languages
standardization of information interchange
standardization of programming languages
shortName ASC X3
linked to: X3
standardizationArea business programming language COBOL
character sets and coding
data representation
database language SQL
information processing systems interfaces
programming language C
programming language Fortran
status historical committee name now replaced by INCITS
successorOrganization INCITS
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
typeOfStandardProduced American National Standard

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X3 fullName Accredited Standards Committee X3
X3 abbreviationMeaning Accredited Standards Committee X3
ANSI X3.159-1989 publishedBy ANSI X3 committee
linked to: Accredited Standards Committee X3
ANSI X3.74-1987 organization ANSI X3 (Information Processing Systems Committee)
linked to: Accredited Standards Committee X3
ANSI X3.226-1994 publishingBody Accredited Standards Committee X3
ESCON standardizedBy ANSI X3T1 (later INCITS)
linked to: Accredited Standards Committee X3