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

Table 1 Summary of Contents (continued)

DescriptionChapter

Describes the syntax of the environment division.Chapter 41: Environment Division

(page 1021)

Describes the syntax of the data division.Chapter 42: Data Division (page 1039)

Describes the syntax of the procedure division.Chapter 43: Procedure Division

(page 1051)

Lists and describes intrinsic function calls.Chapter 44: Intrinsic Function Calls

(page 1093)

Lists and describes ZCOBDLL routine calls.Chapter 45: ZCOBDLL Routine Calls

(page 1100)

See the CRE Programmer’s Guide for ZCREDLL routine calls.Chapter 46: ZCREDLL Routine Calls

(page 1106)

Describes compiler diagnostic messages, including warning, error, and failure

characteristics.

Chapter 47: Compiler Diagnostic

Messages (page 1107)

Describes the run-time diagnostic messages that can be reported if an HP

COBOL process encounters an error condition.

Chapter 48: Run-Time Diagnostic

Messages (page 1178)

Contains two tables of the ASCII character set.Appendix A: ASCII Character Set

(page 1225)

Shows tables that contain the return value size generated by HP language

compilers for each data type.

Appendix B: Data Type

Correspondence (page 1234)

Notation Conventions

COBOL Conventions

This manual uses these conventions throughout:

• “Compiler” means the ECOBOL compiler unless otherwise stated

• “Linker” means the eld utility unless otherwise stated

• COBOL Name Conventions

• Syntax Diagram Conventions

• Range Convention

• Example Conventions

• Change Bar Notation

COBOL Name Conventions

This manual uses these COBOL names, and this is what they mean:

MeaningName

The implementation of the 1985 ISO/ANSI Standard COBOL languageCOBOL

HP COBOL for NonStop systems, the HP implementation of COBOL with HP extensionsHP COBOL

The HP compiler for the HP COBOL language that produces native TNS/E objectsECOBOL