COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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CISC
CISC. See complex instruction-set computing (CISC).
class condition. The proposition that a data item’s contents are all alphabetic or all
numeric. A process can determine whether a class condition is true or false.
clause. An ordered set of consecutive COBOL character-strings that specifies an attribute
of an entry.
CLIBOBJ. The object file containing the COBOL run-time routines that can be bound into
the executable object file built from a COBOL program.
client. A software process, hardware device, or combination of the two that requests
services from a server. Often, the client is a process residing on a programmable
workstation and is the part of an application that provides the user interface. The
workstation client might also perform other portions of the application logic.
A client that runs only in the Guardian environment using an interface defined by HP is
called a requester.
COBOL character set. One of:
Also, in a nonnumeric literal, comment, or comment-entry, any ASCII character.
COBOL file name. The name by which an HP COBOL program recognizes a file. Compare
to system file name.
COBOL word. A character-string up to 30 characters long that forms a user-defined word,
system file name, or reserved word.
COBOLEX0, COBOLEX1, COBOLEXT. The object files of dummy routines that enable the
COBOL compiler to accept ENTER statements whose references to system routines
are to be resolved at loading time. COBOLEX0 represents the latest RVU;
COBOLEX1, the next-to-latest; and COBOLEXT, the second-next-to-latest.
Characters Character Name Characters Character Name
0 ... 9 Digit , Comma (decimal point)
A ... Z Uppercase Letter ; Semicolon
a ... z Lowercase Letter . Period (decimal point)
Space (blank) " Quotation mark
+ Plus sign ( Left parenthesis
– Minus sign (hyphen) ) Right parenthesis
* Asterisk > Greater than symbol
/ Slash (slant, virgule) < Less than symbol
= Equal sign : Colon
$Dollar sign