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

Glossary

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DLL

DLL. See dynamic-link library (DLL).

dynamic access. An access mode in which the process can read specific logical records

from a disk file sequentially or nonsequentially and write such records to the file

nonsequentially while the same OPEN statement is active for that file. Compare to

sequential access and random access.

dynamic file. A file whose COBOL file name is associated with its system file name at run

time.

dynamic-link library (DLL). A PIC library of functions or data for use by other PIC loadfiles.

In UNIX, this type of file is called a shared object file or dynamic shared object (DSO).

EDIT. The HP text file editor program.

EDIT file. In the Guardian file system, an unstructured file with file code 101. An EDIT file

can be processed by either the EDIT or PS Text Edit (TEDIT) editor. An EDIT file

typically contains source program or script code, documentation, or program output.

Open System Services (OSS) functions can open an EDIT file only for reading.

editing characters . One of:

eld utility. A utility that collects, links, and modifies code and data blocks from one or more

position-independent code (PIC) object files to produce a target TNS/E native object

file. See also ld

utility and nld utility.

elementary item. A data item

whose description has no logical subdivisions into other

items.

ENABLE. A utility that SCREEN COBOL uses to generate an interactive update application

under the Pathway/TS transaction processing software.

ENFORM. A query/report writer system that has an English-like relational query language; a

host-language interface allows a COBOL program to call a compiled ENFORM query

and receive a sequence of records collected or created by ENFORM.

enoft utility. A utility that reads and displays information from TNS/E native object files.