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

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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Enscribe. The HP database record manager; provides access to and manipulation of
records in disk files.
EPIC. See explicitly parallel instruction set computing (EPIC).
executable object file. See loadfile.
execution time. Denotes events that occur at the time a process executes an object
program (also called object time or run time).
Expand. The HP data communication network, an extension of the operating system.
explicit scope terminator. A reserved word that terminates the scope of a particular
Procedure Division statement.
explicitly parallel instruction set computing (EPIC). A processor architecture in which
the instruction stream encodes what can be done in parallel (so that the hardware
need not do this). Compare to complex instruction-set computing (CISC) and reduced
instruction-set computing (RISC).
expression. An arithmetic expression or conditional expression.
EXTEND mode. The state of a file after a process executes an OPEN statement including
an EXTEND phrase for the file and before the process executes a CLOSE statement
without the REAL or UNIT phrase for the file, allowing the process to extend the file by
appending additional records.
extended addressing. Data access through an extended (32-bit) pointer (also called 32-bit
addressing). Compare to standard addressing.
Extended-Storage Section. The section of the Data Division that describes data items that
the process stores in the segment of extended memory a program can address on an
HP system. (The items can be noncontiguous data items or records.)
extended storage. An additional segment of data storage available on NonStop systems.
external data. The data described in a program as external external data items and external
file connectors.
external data item. A data item that is described as part of an external record in one or
more programs of a run unit and that itself can be referenced from any program in
which it is described.
external data record. A logical record that is described in one or more programs of a run
unit and whose constituent data items can be referenced from any program in which
they are described.
external file connector. A file connector that is accessible to one or more object programs
in the run unit.