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

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
Glossary-4
class condition
class condition. The proposition that a data item’s contents are all alphabetic or all
numeric. A process can determine whether a class condition is true or false.
clause. An ordered set of consecutive COBOL character-strings that specifies an attribute
of an entry.
client. A software process, hardware device, or combination of the two that requests
services from a server. Often, the client is a process residing on a programmable
workstation and is the part of an application that provides the user interface. The
workstation client might also perform other portions of the application logic.
A client that runs only in the Guardian environment using an interface defined by HP is
called a requester.
COBOL character set. One of:
Also, in a nonnumeric literal, comment, or comment-entry, any ASCII character.
COBOL file name. The name by which an HP COBOL program
recognizes a file. Compare
to system file name
.
COBOL word. A character-string up to 30 characters long that forms a user-defined word,
system file name, or reserved word.
code block. In COBOL, the object code that the compiler generates from a single source
program; in binding or linking, the smallest separately relocatable unit of code in an
object file.
collating sequence. The order of the characters of a character set, for the purpose of
sorting, merging, or comparing.
column. A character position within a print line. The leftmost character position is column 1.
combined condition. Two or more conditions connected by the logical operator AND or
OR.
Characters Character Name Characters Character Name
0 ... 9 Digit , Comma (decimal point)
A ... Z Uppercase Letter ; Semicolon
a ... z Lowercase Letter . Period (decimal point)
Space (blank) " Quotation mark
+ Plus sign ( Left parenthesis
– Minus sign (hyphen) ) Right parenthesis
* Asterisk > Greater than symbol
/ Slash (slant, virgule) < Less than symbol
= Equal sign : Colon
$Dollar sign