COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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high PIN
high PIN. A process identification number (PIN) that is greater than 255. Compare to low
PIN.
HP COBOL Fast I-O. A fast form of sequential block buffering in which run-time routines
handle the record deblocking.
HP COBOL program. A program written in the HP COBOL language. It can be compiled
with the COBOL85, NMCOBOL, or ECOBOL compiler.
HP NonStop™ operating system. The operating system for HP NonStop systems.
HP NonStop™ Transaction Management Facility (TMF). HP software that provides
transaction protection and database consistency in demanding online transaction
processing (OLTP) and decision-support environments. It gives full protection to
transactions that access distributed SQL/MP, SQL/MX, and Enscribe databases, as
well as recovery capabilities for transactions, online disk volumes, and entire
databases.
HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL). The user interface to the NonStop
operating system. TACL is both a command interpreter and a command language.
Users can write programs in TACL that perform complex tasks simply or provide a
consistent user interface across independently programmed applications.
HP Transaction Application Language (TAL). A systems programming language with
many features specific to stack-oriented TNS systems.
identifier. A data name followed, as required, by the combination of qualifiers, subscripts,
and indexes necessary to make a unique reference to a data item.
imperative statement. A statement that either begins with an imperative verb and specifies
an unconditional action for a process to take or is a delimited-scope statement. An
imperative statement can consist of a sequence of imperative statements.
implicit scope terminator. A period (.) that terminates the scope of any preceding
unterminated statement, or a phrase of a statement that by its occurrence indicates the
end of the scope of any statement contained within the preceding phrase.
index. A computer storage position containing a value that identifies a particular table
element; an index-name and an index data item both designate such a storage
position.
index data item. A data item described with a USAGE INDEX phrase that a process uses
to hold a value associated with an index-name.
index-name. A user-defined word specified in an INDEXED clause of a table description to
refer to an index associated with the table.
indexed file. A file that has indexed organization.