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

Standard files
sharing, 860
terminals as, 893
STANDARD-DEVIATION function, 690
START statement
description of, 449
START LESS THAN, 457
STARTBACKUP statement
description of, 460
fault-tolerant facility and, 944, 950
PROGRAM-STATUS data item and, 950
Starting points in disk files, 869
Startup message portions, 614
Statements
description of, 229
arithmetic, 257
arithmetic:common features of, 257
compiler-directing see Compiler directives
conditional, 231
delimited-scope, 232
execution of, 239
imperative, 230
nested, 338
next executable, 241
PERFORM, 391
scope of, 233
summary of, 1051
types of, 230
Static calls, 797
Statistics
from compiler, 525
Status Key 1, 248
Status Key 2, 248
STATUS-3270 message, 152
STOP statement, 462
Stopping compilation
in Guardian environment, 533
in OSS environment, 711
Storage allocation
for compiler, 757
for data items, 188
for data items:data structures, 185
for data items:elementary, 185
for disk files, 856
in File Section, 154, 185
in Linkage Section, 185
initial programs and, 298
STRING statement, 462
String\
length parameters, 321, 323
Stroke (/) see Slash (/)
Structured files
description of, 861
entry-sequenced, 863, 865
improving performance of, 877
indexed, 864, 867
key-sequenced, 864
record blocking for, 877
relative, 863, 866
SUBORDINATE-NAME message, 152
Subprograms see Called programs
Subscripts
description of, 90
for fixed-size tables, 213
indexes and, 214
intrinsic functions and, 658
MOVE statement and, 369
number of, 91
of redefined data items, 188
operand identification and, 242
order of, 213
range of , 91
syntax of, 90
SUBSET directive, 574
SUBSORT-COUNT parameter, 624, 633
Substring replacement
with REPLACE statement, 767
SUBTRACT statement
description of, 466
precision of, 262
Subtraction operator, 260
SUBTYPE directive
description of, 576
Subvolumes to be searched, 756
SUM function, 691
Supervisor process, 900
SUPPRESS directive, 577, 769
Suppressing zero, 76
Suspending a process , 942
Swap file
MERGE statement and, 366
redirecting, 137
SORT statement and, 444
SWAP-FILE parameter
description of, 623
MERGE statement and, 367
Switch-status conditions, 271
Switches, external, 439, 823
Symbol table
directives for, 769
listing of, 776
SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause, 112
Symbolic code listing, 769, 776
SYMBOLS directive, 577
Sync blocks, checkpointing, 948
SYNCDEPTH LIMIT phrase, 144
SYNCDEPTH parameter, 948
SYNCHRONIZED clause
description of, 217
for COMPUTATIONAL-3 data item, 207
for COMPUTATIONAL-5 data item, 208
for INDEX data item, 209
for NATIVE-n data item, 209
for PACKED-DECIMAL data item, 207
in record description entry, 185
Synchronized data items, 217
Syntax checking, 755
SYNTAX directive, 578, 757
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