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

EXCEPTION phrase, 296
Exclamation mark (, 745, 910
Exclusion modes, 84, 387, 859
EXCLUSIVE exclusion mode, 84, 387, 881
Executable files, 42
Execution
of Declaratives Portion, 242
of loadfiles, 42
of paragraphs, 239
of Procedure Division, 238
of procedures, 242
of programs
in Guardian environment, 581, 825
in OSS environment, 712
of programs:that use tape files, 853
of sections, 240
of sentences, 239
of statements, 239
EXECUTION-LOG parameter, 588
Execution:of programs
description of, 853
EXIT statement, 330
EXPIRATION attribute of DEFINE
for labeled tape file, 852
for unlabeled tape file, 849
Expired time limit, 256
Explicit scope terminators, 232
Explicit transfer of control, 240
Exponentiation operator, 260
Expressions
concatenation:description of, 276
concatenation:summary of, 1015
conditional, 265
conditional:summary of, 1012
EXTDECS file, 801
EXTDECS0 file, 801
EXTDECS1 file, 801
Extend open mode, 83
Extended addressing, 180
EXTENDED parameter, 575
EXTENDED-STORAGE access mode, 180
Extended-Storage Section, 178
data description entries in, 179
Extensions to ISO/ANSI COBOL, 705
Extents
file, 856
EXTERNAL clause
description of, 159, 190
heritability of, 160
in record description entry, 184
initializing data items and, 177
REDEFINES clause and, 189
External errors, 251
External objects
description of, 52, 153
description of, 52, 153
files, 160, 523
connectors for, 84
files:keys in, 160
files:names of, 883
global, 53
initialization of, 177
items required to be, 160
records, 190
sharing with C programs, 803
status during program execution, 597
switches, 271, 439, 823
External references, 813
F
FACTORIAL function, 666
Failure messages, 1107
format of, 1108
in compiler listing, 775
Failure messages:list of;Warning messages:list of, 1108
FALSE value, 265
Fast I-O see HP COBOL Fast I-O
FastSort interface routines, 610
Fatal errors, 257
Fault-tolerant facility, 945
debugging programs for, 953
designing programs for, 952
example of, 951
FC command, 746
FD entries:See File description entries, 155
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), 551
Figurative constants
description of, 74
defined by SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause, 112
displaying values of, 314
length associated with, 74
program collating sequence and, 112
where allowed , 74
File assignments
at compilation time, 821
dynamic, 835, 839
File attributes, 883
File connectors, 84
CANCEL statement and, 302
external and internal, 53
shared, 160
File description entries
description of, 155
for line sequential files, 718
record description entries and, 186
File extents, 856
File names
COBOL
associating with system file names, 833
COBOL:characteristics of, 832
HP, for permanent disk files, 831
multiple, for one physical file, 884
physical, 883
scope of, 50
special, 833
system, 830
system:for devices, 832
system:for nondisk files, 832
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