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

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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Input-Output Section
Input-Output Section. A section of the Environment Division that names the files and the
external media required by an object program and that provides information a process
needs for transmitting and handling data when it executes the object program.
input-output statement. A statement that causes files to be processed by performing
operations upon individual records or upon the file as a unit. The input-output
statements are: ACCEPT with mnemonic-name, CLOSE, DELETE, DISPLAY, OPEN,
READ, REWRITE, START, and WRITE.
input procedure. A Procedure Division section or group of sections executed during a
SORT operation; the statements of the section generate or obtain the records to be
sorted, and pass the records to the sort utility one at a time using the RELEASE
statement. When the input procedure terminates by passing through the end of its final
paragraph, that signals the end of the set of records to be sorted.
integer. A numeric literal or a numeric item that does not include any digit positions to the
right of the assumed decimal point; in syntax diagrams, an unsigned numeric literal
that does not equal zero, unless the explanation of a format says otherwise.
Intel® Itanium® instructions. Register-oriented Itanium instructions that are native to and
directly executed by a TNS/E system. Itanium instructions do not execute on TNS and
TNS/R systems. Compare to TNS instructions and MIPS RISC instructions.
TNS Object Code Accelerator (OCA) produces Itanium instructions to accelerate TNS
object code. A TNS/E native compiler produces native-compiled Itanium instructions
when it compiles source code.
internal data. The data described in a program, including all internal data items and internal
file connectors. Items described in the Linkage Section of a program are handled as
internal data.
internal data item. A data item that is described in one program in a run unit. An internal
data item can have a global name.
internal file connector. A file connector
that is accessible to only one object program in the
run unit
.
invalid key condition. A condition caused at object time when the process determines that
a specific value of the key associated with a structured file is invalid—has a value to
which no record in the associated file corresponds, or has a value which exceeds the
bounds of the file, or specifies a value that would cause a duplicate key value in the file
where no duplicate key values are allowed.
I-O-CONTROL. The name of an Environment Division paragraph
that specifies object
program requirements for specific input-output techniques, rerun points, several data
files sharing the same areas, and multiple file storage on a single input-output device.