COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

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HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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Within the Data Division, you can use file-names from file description (FD) or sort-
merge file description (SD) entries and data-names from data description entries for
qualification. Within the levels of qualification, file-names (names associated with level
indicators FD and SD) are most significant, then data-names for level-01 items, and
then data names for level-02 items, and so on to level-49 items. The name of a
conditional variable can qualify any of its condition-names.
Qualified Condition-Name:
Qualified Data-Name:
Qualified Paragraph-Name:
Qualified Text-Name:
Qualified LINAGE COUNTER:
condition-name
OF
IN
conditional-variable-name
mnemonic-name
VST001.vsd
data-name
OF
IN
file-name
OF
IN
data-name
VST002.vsd
paragraph-name
OF
IN
section-name
VST003.vsd
OF
IN
text-name
library-name
VST004.vsd
VST005.vsd
LINAGE-COUNTER
OF
IN
file-name