| updatablility processing | Refer to the following section, "Understanding Implicit Updatability." |
| SQLCA declaration | Refer to the following section, "Declaring the SQLCA." |
| host language comments | ALLBASE/SQL allows host language comments within an SQL statement. The standard allows only SQL comments. |
| $SQL COPY compiler directive | ALLBASE/SQL supports the COBOL COPY statement. Refer to the ALLBASE/SQL COBOL Application Programming Guide for usage details. |
| SQLCODE in FORTRAN | The standard requires a variable declaration for SQLCOD, and ALLBASE/SQL supports the standard. |
| SQLIND | This host variable type is not standards compliant. The standard requires that an indicator variable be declared as any exact numeric data type of scale zero, and ALLBASE/SQL supports the standard with the exception of BULK processing. |
