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

Calling Other Programs and Routines

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COBOL Utility Routines

HP provides many COBOL utility routines that your COBOL program can call with the

ENTER statement. These routines are described in Section 13, Libraries and Utility

Routines.

ENFORM Programs

ENFORM, a component of the Encompass distributed database management system,

is a powerful nonprocedural language for querying or developing reports on a relational

database.

If your database is described in the Data Definition Language (DDL), you can write an

ENFORM query to specify the records you want from the database and the order in

which you want ENFORM to deliver them. You then compile that ENFORM query into

a disk file and include code in a COBOL program to start ENFORM as a separate

process.

The operating environment procedure ENFORMSTART initiates the query processor.

Each time the ENFORMRECEIVE procedure executes, it accepts either a record that

ENFORM built and transmitted to the program through the interprocess message

system or an error value. The ENFORMFINISH procedure terminates the processing

with the query processor. This mechanism is called the host-language interface and is

documented in the ENFORM User’s Guide. You cannot use this mechanism from a

Pathway server if the ENFORM routines use $RECEIVE.

Restrictions on Calling Non-COBOL Routines

An HP COBOL program can call routines written in native HP C, native HP C++, and

pTAL.

These topics explain the restrictions on calling non-COBOL routines from HP COBOL.

For information about passing HP COBOL parameters to such routines, see Passing

Parameters to Non-COBOL Routines.

Topics:

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HP C Routines

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HP C++ Function Name Consideration