COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.08+, J06.03+)

file type and, 116
in external file, 160
in sequential file, 120
Page overflow condition, 489, 491
Pages, logical;Margins
top and bottom, 169
Paragraph-names
identical, 70
qualified, 69
Paragraphs
execution of, 239
syntax of, 234
PARAM commands, 527
DEBUG, 587
description of, 586
EXECUTION-LOG, 587
INSPECT, 587
maximum number of, 824
NONSTOP, 587, 822
OSS environment and, 723
PRINTER-CONTROL, 823, 914
showing active, 825
SWAPVOL, 527
SWITCH-nn, 587, 823
SYMBOL-BLOCKS, 757
migrating to native mode and, 959
WAITED-IO, 587, 823
PARAM message portions, 614
Parameters
adding formal, 801
addressing, 322
arithmetic expressions as, 806
COBOL file names as, 806
declaring, 299
elementary data items as, 805, 806
established with =_SORT_DEFAULTS DEFINE, 611
established with FastSort, 610
extensible, 801
for operating system routines, 800
formal, adding, 801
index values as, 299
lists of, 801
numeric literals as, 806
omitted, 321, 522
passing see Passing parameters
presenting, 522
records as, 807
string\:length, 321, 323
tables as, 806
validation of, 299
variable, 801
Parentheses
as separators, 62
in arithmetic expressions, 260
in conditions, 276
Partitioned disk files, 856, 880
Passing parameters
description of, 804
by content, 295, 805
by reference, 294, 322, 522, 806
by value, 295, 322, 522, 807
CALL statement and, 298
COMPUTATIONAL-5, 208
pTAL, 810
to COBOL programs, 807
to non-COBOL routines, 809, 810
description of, 808
Passwords
remote, 859
Pathnames for OSS files, 714
PC-to-NonStop host transfer tools, 970
PERFORM cycle, 390
PERFORM statement
CALL statement and, 298
initial state of program and, 597
status during program execution, 597
PERFORM-TRACE directive, 559
Period (.)
See also Decimal point, 76
as separator, 62
format restrictions on, 47
in delimited-scope IF statement, 336
in PICTURE clause, 76, 193, 199
PERUSE utility, 753, 900, 906
Physical records, 79
PIC
See Position-independent code (PIC), 600
PICTURE character-strings, 76
editing characters in, 76
punctuation characters in, 62
size of, 192
PICTURE clause
description of, 191
for BINARY/COMPUTATIONAL data item, 206
for COMPUTATIONAL-5 data item, 208
for INDEX data item, 209
for NATIVE-n data item, 209
in record description entry, 184
NUMERIC class test and, 270
Plus sign (+)
as editing character, 76
in PICTURE clause, 194, 200, 201
Pointer class and category, 77
POINTER data format
description of, 204, 210
PORT directive and, 561
SYNCHRONIZE clause and, 217
Pointers
assigning values to, 436
decrementing, 440
incrementing, 440
initializing, 220
on IBM/370 machine, 441
SET TO statement for, 436
SET UP or DOWN statement for, 440
VALUE clause and, 220
PORT directive
description of, 560
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