COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
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language-specific run-time library
language-specific run-time library. A collection of routines outside the CRE that supports
requests from a specific language for services such as I-O and heap management,
math and string functions, exception handling, and error reporting.
ld 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/R native object
file. See also eld utility and nld utility.
letter. A character belonging to one of these two sets:
level indicator. Two alphabetic characters that identify a specific type of entry in the Data
Division: file description entry or sort-merge file description entry.
level-number. A user-defined word that indicates the position of a data item in the
hierarchical structure of a logical record (a number in the range 1 through 49); a user-
defined word that indicates the special properties of a data description entry (the
numbers 66, 77, and 88).
library-name. A user-defined word that names a COPY library file for the compiler to copy
text from during a compilation.
LINAGE-COUNTER. A special register that the compiler generates for each file description
that has a LINAGE clause. At any given time, a LINAGE-COUNTER contains the value
of the current line number within the current page body.
line sequential file. A file that has line sequential organization (code 180) that is compatible
with the system text editor of the Open System Services (OSS) environment (also
called OSS ASCII text file).
LINE-COUNTER. A special register that is not available in HP COBOL.
Linkage Section. A section of the Data Division in a called program that describes data
items available from the calling program (the items to which both programs can refer).
linkfile. An object file that requires linking with other object files before execution (also
called a nonexecutable object file). Compare to loadfile.
linking. The operation of examining, collecting, connecting, and modifying code blocks and
data blocks from one or more object files to produce one target file.
literal. A character-string whose ordered set of characters implies its value.
loadfile. An object file that is ready for immediate execution (also called an executable
object file). Compare to linkfile. Program files, user libraries, shared run-time libraries,
and dynamic link libraries are loadfiles.
Uppercase letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Lowercase letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z