COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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indexed organization
indexed organization. A permanent logical file structure in which a process can identify
each record by the value of one or more keys within the record.
IN file. The input file of a process, either specified explicitly at process start time or inherited
from the parent process.
initial program. A program that is placed into an initial state every time the program is
called in a run unit.
initial state. The state of a program when it is first called in a run unit.
input file. A file open in the INPUT mode.
INPUT mode. The state of a file after a process executes an OPEN statement including an
INPUT phrase for the file and before the process executes a CLOSE statement
(without the REEL or UNIT phrase for the file), allowing the process to read records
from the file.
input-output file. A file open in the I-O mode.
Input-Output Section. A section of the Environment Division that names the files and the
external media required by an object program and that provides information a process
needs for transmitting and handling data when it executes the object program.
input-output statement. A statement that causes files to be processed by performing
operations upon individual records or upon the file as a unit. The input-output
statements are: ACCEPT with mnemonic-name, CLOSE, DELETE, DISPLAY, OPEN,
READ, REWRITE, START, and WRITE.
input procedure. A Procedure Division section or group of sections executed during a
SORT operation; the statements of the section generate or obtain the records to be
sorted, and pass the records to the sort utility one at a time using the RELEASE
statement. When the input procedure terminates by passing through the end of its final
paragraph
, that signals the end of the set of records to be sorted.
integer. A numeric literal
or a numeric item that does not include any digit positions to the
right of the assumed decimal point; in syntax diagrams, an unsigned numeric literal
that does not equal zero, unless the explanation of a format says otherwise.
Intel® Itanium® instructions. Register-oriented Itanium instructions that are native to and
directly executed by a TNS/E system. Itanium instructions do not execute on TNS and
TNS/R systems. Compare to TNS instructions and MIPS RISC instructions.
TNS Object Code Accelerator (OCA) produces Itanium instructions to accelerate TNS
object code. A TNS/E native compiler produces native-compiled Itanium instructions
when it compiles source code.