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Micro Focus COBOL Language Reference - Additional Topics
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Ch 1. Report Writer
Report Section
Report Structure
Vertical Spacing
Horizontal Spacing
Data Manipulation
Report Subdivisions
Physical Subdivision of a Report
Logical Subdivisions of a Report
Procedure Division Report Writer Statements
Language Concepts
Report File
Special Register PAGE-COUNTER
Special Register LINE-COUNTER
For OSVS only: Special Register PRINT-SWITCH
Subscripting
Environment Division in the Report Writer Module
Input-Output Section
The File-Control Paragraph
Function
Additional Syntax Rules
The I-O-Control Paragraph
Function
Additional Syntax Rule
Data Division in the Report Writer Module
The File Description Entry
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The REPORT Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Report Section
General Format
Report Description Entry
Report Group Description Entry
The Report Description Entry
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
PAGE-COUNTER Rules
LINE-COUNTER Rules
The CODE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The CONTROL Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The PAGE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Page Regions
The Report Group Description Entry
Function
General Formats
Format 1
Format 2
Format 3
Syntax Rules
All Formats
Format 1
Format 2
Format 3
General Rules
Data Division in the Report Writer Module (cont.)
Presentation Rules Tables
Description
Organization
Line Number Clause Notation
Line Number Clause Sequence Substitutions
Saved Next Group Integer Description
Report Heading Group Presentation Rules
Page Heading Group Presentation Rules
Body Group Presentation Rules
Page Footing Presentation Rules
Report Footing Presentation Rules
The COLUMN NUMBER Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The DATA-NAME Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rule
Data Division in the Report Writer Module (cont)
The GROUP INDICATE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
Level-Number
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The LINE NUMBER Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The NEXT GROUP Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The SIGN Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The SOURCE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rule
The SUM Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The TYPE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The USAGE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The VALUE Clause
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Procedure Division in the Report Writer Module
General Description
The CLOSE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The GENERATE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The INITIATE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The OPEN Statement
Additional Syntax Rules
Additional General Rule
The SUPPRESS Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The TERMINATE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The USE BEFORE REPORTING Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Ch 2. Communication
Data Division in the Communication Module
Communication Section
The Communication Description - Complete Entry Skeleton
Function
General Formats
Format 1
Format 2
For ANS85 only: Format 3
Syntax Rules
All Formats
Formats 1 and (3 - ANS85)
Format 2
For ANS85 only: Format 3
General Rules
All Formats
Format 1
Format 2
For ANS85 only: Format 3
Procedure Division in the Communication Module
The ACCEPT MESSAGE COUNT Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The DISABLE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The ENABLE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
For ANS85 only: The PURGE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The RECEIVE Statement
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The SEND Statement
Function
General Formats
Format 1
Format 2
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Both Formats
Format 2
Ch 3. Debug Module
Standard ANSI COBOL Debug
Object-time Switch
COBOL Debug Run-time Switch
Environment Division in COBOL Debug
The WITH DEBUGGING MODE Clause
Function
General Format
General Rules
Procedure Division in COBOL Debug
For OSVS and VSC2 only: The READY TRACE Statement
Function
For VSC2 only: General Format
General Rules
For OSVS and VSC2 only: The RESET TRACE Statement
Function
General Format
General Rules
The USE FOR DEBUGGING Statement
Function
General Format
Run-time Switches
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Debugging Lines
Ch 4. Segmentation
General Description of Segmentation
Organization
Program Segments
Fixed Portion
Independent Segments
Segmentation Classification
Segmentation Control
Structure of Program Segments
Segment-Numbers
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Segment-Limit
General Format
Syntax Rule
For MF only: General Rule
Restrictions on Program Flow
The ALTER Statement
The PERFORM Statement
The MERGE Statement
The SORT Statement
Ch 5. For VSC2 and MF only: Double-Byte Character Set Support
DBCS Data
Roman Script in DBCS
Multivendor Integration Architecture Support
Source Programs
Language Extensions
Comments and Comment-entries
User-defined Words
Spaces
For VSC2 and MF only: Data Items
DBCS Data Items
Mixed Data Items
Literals
DBCS Literals
Category of DBCS Literals
Mixed Literals
Figurative Constants
For MF and COB/370 only: The "N" literal
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
For MF and VSC2 only: Program Structure
The END PROGRAM Header
Syntax Rule
For MF and VSC2 only: Identification Division in the DBCS Module
The PROGRAM-ID Paragraph
Syntax Rules
For VSC2 and MF only: Environment Division
The SOURCE-COMPUTER Paragraph
Syntax Rule
The OBJECT-COMPUTER Paragraph
Syntax Rule
The SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph
Syntax Rules
The FILE-CONTROL Paragraph
Syntax Rule
For VSC2 and MF only: Data Divisionin the DBCS Module
The JUSTIFIED Clause
General Rule
The PICTURE Clause
General Rules
Rules for DBCS Data
Rule for DBCS Edited Data
Symbols Used
Editing Rules
Fixed Insertion Editing
The REDEFINES Clause
Syntax Rule
RENAMES Clause
Syntax Rule
The USAGE Clause
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rule
The VALUE Clause
Syntax Rules
CONDITION-NAME Rule
For VSC2 and MF only: Procedure Division
Conditional Expressions
Relation Conditions
Class Condition
Move Operation
The ACCEPT Statement
Syntax Rule
General Rules
The CALL Statement
Syntax Rules
General Rule
The CANCEL Statement
Syntax Rules
The INITIALIZE Statement
General Format
General Rule
The INSPECT Statement
Syntax Rule
General Rule
The MOVE Statement
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The SEARCH Statement
Syntax Rule
The STOP Statement
Syntax Rule
The STRING Statement
Syntax Rule
General Rule
The UNSTRING Statement
Syntax Rule
General Rules
Ch 6. For MF only: Micro Focus Extensions for Double-Byte Character Support
NCHAR Data
Source Programs
Language Extensions
Comments and Comment-entries
User-defined Words
Spaces
Data Items
NCHAR Data Items
Mixed Data
Literals
NCHAR Literals
Category of NCHAR Literals
Mixed Literals
Figurative Constants
Figurative Constant Values
Environment Division
The OBJECT-COMPUTER Paragraph
General Rule
The SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph
Syntax Rules
The FILE-CONTROL Paragraph
Syntax Rule
Data Division
The JUSTIFIED Clause
General Rule
The PICTURE Clause
General Rules
Rules for NCHAR Data
Rule for NCHAR-EDITED Data
Symbols Used
Editing Rules
Fixed Insertion Editing
The USAGE Clause
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rule
The VALUE Clause
Syntax Rule
Procedure Division
Conditional Expressions
Condition-name
Relation Conditions
Class Condition
The ACCEPT Statement
General Rule
The INITIALIZE Statement
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rule
The INSPECT Statement
General Rule
Syntax Rule
The MOVE Statement
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The SEARCH Statement
General Rule
The STRING Statement
General Rule
Syntax Rule
The UNSTRING Statement
General Rule
Syntax Rule
Ch 7. Examples
CALL Prototypes
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
Example 7
Example 8
Example 9
Example 10
Example of CALL Prototype Usage
Calling and Setting a Procedure-Pointer
Call Returning a Dynamically Allocated Data Area from a Subprogram
COPY (ANSI'68 or LANGLVL(1) Variation)
COPY (Partial Word Replacement)
CRT Status Clause of the SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph
$IF Statement (Conditional Compilation)
INSPECT Statement (Tallying, Replacing, and Converting)
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
Example 4:
Example 5:
NEXT Clause of CONSTANT-NAMES
SORT Table Entries
Split Key
TYPEDEF - User Defined USAGE or Structure
Ch 8. Summary of Obsolete Language Elements
List of Obsolete Language Elements
Ch 9. VS COBOL II Compatibility
Ch 10. DOS/VS COBOL Support
Ch 11. Microsoft COBOL V1.0 and V2.0 Syntax Support
Special Registers LIN and COL
Environment Division
The Special-Names Paragraph
Data Division
The USAGE Clause
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Procedure Division
The Position-Specification Phrase
Function
General Format
Syntax Rule
The ACCEPT Statement
General Format
General Rules
The DISPLAY Statement
General Format
General Rules
The EXHIBIT Statement
General Format
Syntax Rule
General Rule
Microsoft V2.0 Additional Syntax Support
Record LOCKING
Function
General Format
General Rules
OPEN LOCKING Statement
General Format
General Rules
READ Statement (in Manual mode)
General Format
START Statement
General Format
Ch 12. Ryan McFarland COBOL V2.0 Syntax Support
Environment Division
The ASSIGN Clause
General Format
General Rule
The ORGANIZATION Clause
General Format
General Rules
Data Division
The VALUE OF LABEL Clause
General Format
General Rule
Length of Nonnumeric Literals
Default Sign Representation
The USAGE Clause
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Procedure Division
Literals as CALL Parameters
The EXIT PROGRAM Statement
Bound Checking
Size Allocation for Index Data Items
The ACCEPT Statement
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
The DISPLAY Statement
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rules
Non-Standard Operations on Alphanumeric Data Items
OPEN and CLOSE on SEQUENTIAL Files
The PERFORM Statement
Procedure Names
REWRITE on LINE SEQUENTIAL Files
The STOP RUN Statement
General Format
Syntax Rules
General Rule
File I-O Status Codes
Locked Records
Ch 13. Data General Interactive COBOL V1.3 Syntax Support
Environment Division
Switch-Names
File-Name on Disk
The DATA SIZE Clause
The INDEX SIZE Clause
Duplicate Alternate Keys
Alternate Keys
I-O Control Paragraph
Data Division
VALUE Clause
The Screen Section
Procedure Division
The CALL Statement
General Format
General Rule
The COPY INDEXED Statement
The DISPLAY Statement
File Sharing Syntax
The OPEN Statement
The READ Statement
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Index