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

Glossary
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SCREEN COBOL
SCREEN COBOL. A procedural language developed by HP and based on COBOL that is
used to define and control screen displays on terminals and other input-output devices.
SCREEN COBOL allows programmers to write requester programs that communicate
with operator terminals and intelligent input-output devices and that send data to server
processes that manage application databases. SCREEN COBOL programs are
compiled into pseudocode form by the SCREEN COBOL compiler and are then
interpreted by the TCP.
section. A section header followed by a section body, which includes zero or more
paragraphs or entries.
section header. In the Procedure Division, a section-name followed by the reserved word
SECTION, a segment number (optional), a period, and a space; in the Environment
Division or Data Division, a combination of reserved words followed by a period (.). The
section headers in the Environment Division are:
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CONFIGURATION SECTION
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INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION
The section headers in the Data Division are:
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FILE SECTION
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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION
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EXTENDED-STORAGE SECTION
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LINKAGE SECTION
section-name. A user-defined word that names a section in the Procedure Division.
segment number. A user-defined word, expressed as a one- or two-digit number, that
classifies a Procedure Division section for segmentation.
semicolon separator. A sequence of two or more characters where the first one is a
semicolon, and the remaining ones are spaces.
sentence. A sequence of one or more statement
s, the last terminated by a period (.).
separately compiled program. A program that (together with its contained programs) is
compiled separately from all other programs. In the HP COBOL implementation,
several separately compiled programs can be presented to the compiler as a group;
each must be separated from its neighbor by an ENDUNIT directive or its end program
header.
separator. A string of one or two punctuation character
s used to delimit character-strings.
sequential access. An access mode in which a process reads logical records from or
writes logical records to a file in a consecutive predecessor-to-successor sequence
determined by the order of the records in the file (or, in the case of sequential access
by an alternate record key, in a sequence governed by the value of the alternate key
selected in a START statement).