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

Contents

HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003

2. Source Program Organization and

Format (continued)

2. Source Program Organization and Format (continued)

Nested Source Programs 2-8

Directly Contained Programs and Indirectly Contained Programs 2-9

Scope of User-Defined Names 2-9

Common Programs 2-12

Programs in the Same Run Unit 2-12

Initial Programs 2-12

How Programs Share Resources 2-13

Global and Local Names 2-13

External and Internal Objects 2-14

Shared Data 2-16

Shared Files 2-22

3. Language Elements

COBOL Character Set 3-2

Punctuation Characters 3-3

Separators 3-4

Comments 3-5

Nonnumeric and National Literals 3-5

Numeric Literals and PICTURE Character-Strings 3-6

Character-Strings 3-6

COBOL Words 3-6

Literals 3-15

PICTURE Character-Strings 3-22

Comments 3-23

4. Data Fundamentals

Data Levels, Classes, and Categories 4-1

Data Structures 4-2

Level-Numbers 4-2

Records 4-3

Files 4-6

Tables 4-12

Data Representation 4-14

Data Alignment in Receiving Items 4-15

Data Alignment in Memory 4-15