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

Data Division

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Working-Storage Section

The Working-Storage Section defines records and miscellaneous data items for the

process to use. You can set the initial values of most data items in working storage.

When a process does not need local data items or explicit intermediate storage to

execute the run unit, you can omit the Working-Storage Section.

01-data-description

77-data-description

describe data items for the process to use (for details, see Data Description

Entries). You can specify initial values for most of these data items (see Initializing

Data Items).

There is no difference between level-77 items and elementary level-01 items, and

the latter are preferred.

There are limits to the number of records and level-77 items that a program can

contain. See Section 18, HP COBOL CRE Support.

66-or-88

is a level-66 or level-88 description. For syntax, see Descriptions That Rename

Items (Level 66) and Descriptions of Condition-Names for Values (Level 88).

Data Description Entries

The data description entries for unrelated items (level-77 items) or records or both

follow the Working-Storage Section header. Record-names, level-77 item names, and

subordinate data-names are not required to be unique within the program except in

these cases:

•

A data-name that is referenced in the program and cannot be uniquely designated

by including qualifying names in the reference cannot be uniquely designated by

including qualifying names in the reference (the reference is diagnosed, not the

data-name)

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION

01-data-description

77-data-description

66-or-88

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