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

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PARAM commands (continued)

SWITCH-nn 12-9, 25-6

SYMBOL-BLOCKS 11-23, 22-18

migrating to native mode and 33-3

WAITED-IO 12-10, 25-6

PARAM message portions 13-21

Parameters

adding formal 23-11

addressing 9-58

arithmetic expressions as 23-18

COBOL file names as 23-18

declaring 9-26

elementary data items as 23-17, 23-19

established with FastSort 13-16

established with =_SORT_DEFAULTS

DEFINE 13-16

extensible 23-11

for operating system routines 23-9

formal, adding 23-11

index values as 9-27

lists of 23-11

numeric literals as 23-18

omitted 9-57, 11-15

passing

See Passing parameters

presenting 11-15

records as 23-19

string:length 9-56, 9-59, 23-25

tables as 23-18

validation of 9-27

variable 23-11

Parentheses

as separators 3-5

in arithmetic expressions 8-47

in conditions 8-68

Partitioned disk files 28-2, 28-36

Passing parameters

description of 23-16/23-26

by content 9-21, 23-17/23-18

by reference 9-21, 9-58, 11-15, 23-19

Passing parameters (continued)

by value 9-21, 9-58, 11-15, 23-19

CALL statement and 9-26/9-27

COMPUTATIONAL-5 7-74

to COBOL programs 23-20/23-21

to non-COBOL routines

description of 23-21/23-26

C and C++ 23-22/23-24

pTAL 23-24/23-26

Passwords, remote 28-6

Pathnames for OSS files 19-6/19-7

PC-to-NonStop host transfer tools 34-10

PERFORM cycle 9-145

PERFORM statement

description of 9-144/9-165

CALL statement and 9-26

initial state of program and 12-22

status during program execution 12-23

PERFORM-TRACE directive 11-65

Period (.)

See also Decimal point

as separator 3-5

format restrictions on 2-7

in delimited-scope IF statement 9-75

in PICTURE clause 3-22, 7-56, 7-63

PERUSE utility 22-13, 30-3, 30-11/30-16

Physical records 4-4

PIC

See Position-independent code (PIC)

PICTURE character-strings

description of 3-22

editing characters in 3-22

punctuation characters in 3-6

size of 7-54

PICTURE clause

description of 7-53/7-67

for BINARY/COMPUTATIONAL data

item 7-72

for COMPUTATIONAL-5 data item 7-74

for INDEX data item 7-75