Even if COBOL is standardized, internal representation of signed and binary data may differ from a compiler to another, from a platform to another one, etc. That's why, a small COBOL program was written to create binary, packed-decimal and numeric reference data. On IBM mainframe running MVS, compiling it is easy, using a one of the 'Enterprise COBOL for Z/OS' product family. But on Windows and Linux/Unix, there are few compilers, with a active project status, available. On of them is : Tiny-Cobol that you can download from :
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/Tiny-Cobol runs on :