COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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editing characters
editing characters . One of:
eld utility. A utility that collects, links, and modifies code and data blocks from one or more
position-independent code (PIC) object files to produce a target TNS/E native object
file. See also ld utility and nld utility.
elementary item. A data item whose description has no logical subdivisions into other
items.
ENABLE. A utility that SCREEN COBOL uses to generate an interactive update application
under the Pathway/TS transaction processing software.
ENFORM. A query/report writer system that has an English-like relational query language; a
host-language interface allows a COBOL program to call a compiled ENFORM query
and receive a sequence of records collected or created by ENFORM.
enoft utility. A utility that reads and displays information from TNS/E native object files.
See also noft utility.
Enscribe. The HP database record manager; provides access to and manipulation of
records in disk files.
EPIC. See explicitly parallel instruction set computing (EPIC).
executable object file. See loadfile.
execution time. Denotes events that occur at the time a process executes an object
program (also called object time or run time).
Expand. The HP data communication network, an extension of the operating system.
explicit scope terminator. A reserved word that terminates the scope of a particular
Procedure Division statement.
explicitly parallel instruction set computing (EPIC). A processor architecture in which
the instruction stream encodes what can be done in parallel (so that the hardware
need not do this). Compare to complex instruction-set computing (CISC) and reduced
instruction-set computing (RISC).
expression. An arithmetic expression or conditional expression.
Character Meaning Character Meaning
B Space Z Zero suppress
0 Zero * Check protect
+Plus$Currency sign
- Minus , Comma (decimal point)
CR Credit / Slash (slant, virgule)
DB Debit