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

Document Organization
Table 1 Summary of Contents
DescriptionChapter
Introduces the HP COBOL for NonStop systems (HP COBOL) language and
explains how to use it to create TNS/E native processes.
Chapter 1: Introduction (page 38)
Describes how to organize and format a source program into a reference
format that the compiler accepts.
Chapter 2: Source Program
Organization and Format (page 43)
Describes the COBOL character set, punctuation characters, and
character-strings.
Chapter 3: Language Elements
(page 59)
Describes data levels, classes, and categories and how they are organized
into data structures and organized, stored, and executed.
Chapter 4: Data Fundamentals
(page 77)
Describes the Identification Division that is required in a COBOL program and
which contains a PROGRAM-ID paragraph and a DATE-COMPILED paragraph.
Chapter 5: Identification Division
(page 96)
Describes the Environment Division that is optional in a COBOL program and
which contains a Configuration Section and an Input-Output Section.
Chapter 6: Environment Division
(page 101)
Describes the Data Division that is optional in a COBOL program. It contains
the File Section, the Working-Storage Section, the Extended-Storage Section,
and the Linkage Section.
Chapter 7: Data Division (page 153)
Describes the optional Procedure Division, but a program without a Procedure
Division does nothing except initialize data. The Procedure Division is
composed of statements, which specify the actions to be taken by the program.
Chapter 8: Procedure Division
(page 227)
Describes the COBOL verbs that you can use in the Procedure Division, in
alphabetic order.
Chapter 9: Procedure Division Verbs
(page 278)
Describes source manipulation, which comprises the COPY statement, COPY
libraries, and the REPLACE statement.
Chapter 10: Source Text Manipulation
(page 499)
Describes program compilation including compiler directives that specify the
source format, control listing features, control selective compilation of portions
of the source code, and request compilation options.
Chapter 11: Program Compilation
(page 512)
Describes how to run programs in the Guardian environment.Chapter 12: Program Execution
(page 581)
Describes utility routines in dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) named ZCOBDLL and
ZCREDLL. (You can also create a user library for an HP COBOL program.)
Chapter 13: Libraries and Utility
Routines (page 599)
Describes intrinsic functions that your program can use, but does not need to
declare. An intrinsic function returns a value that is computed at the time of
reference during the execution of the object program.
Chapter 14: Intrinsic Functions
(page 655)
Briefly describes HP debugging tools and refers you to appropriate sources
for more information.
Chapter 15: Debugging Tools
(page 699)
Describes ANSI reference format, in which each line has 80 characters
(columns). Five margins divide each line into five areas.
Chapter 16: ANSI Reference Format
(page 702)
Lists the HP extensions to ISO/ANSI COBOL, grouping them according to the
sections of this manual that explain them.
Chapter 17: HP Extensions to ISO
COBOL (page 705)
Describes the Common Run-Time Environment (CRE), a set of services that
supports mixed-language programs.
Chapter 18: HP COBOL CRE Support
(page 709)
Describes how to run programs in the OSS environment.Chapter 19: Using HP COBOL in the
OSS Environment (page 711)
Describes the kinds of limits the HP architecture and the method of
implementation of the HP COBOL compiler, ECOBOL, imposes on HP COBOL
programs.
Chapter 20: HP COBOL Limits
(page 726)
Contains alphabetized lists of all reserved words and HP reserved words.Chapter 21: Reserved Words (page 731)
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