COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Source Program Organization and Format

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Shared Files

Two programs in a run unit can refer to common file connectors in these

circumstances:

•

Any program that has described an external file connector can refer to that file

connector.

•

If program G is contained within program H, both programs can refer to a common

file connector. They do so by referring to an associated global file-name (or

associated global record-name, in the case of the WRITE and REWRITE

statements) described in either:

The containing program H

Any program that directly or indirectly contains H

If several programs define a file connector as external (causing its storage location to

be a single location outside all programs) and they also define the file connector as

having a global name, then all such programs and all programs nested within each of

them have access to the file connector.