COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
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noncontiguous items
noncontiguous items. Elementary data items that bear no hierarchical relationship to other
items and that you describe in the Working-Storage, Extended-Storage, and Linkage
Sections of the Data Division:
•
Level 77 items
•
Level 01 items (each one of which is noncontiguous with respect to each other
one)
non-CRE environment. A set of services implemented by the COBOL85 run-time library.
Without the CRE, HP C, HP COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, or pTAL programs each have
their own language-specific run-time environments. These language-specific run-time
environments are often incompatible with each other. Compare to Common Run-Time
Environment (CRE).
non-CRE program. A program that runs in its own language-specific run-time environment
(as opposed to the CRE). If it is an HP COBOL program, it was compiled with the
COBOL85 compiler and the directive ENV OLD. Compare to CRE program.
nonexecutable object file. See linkfile.
nonnumeric literal. A character-string, delimited by quotation marks, that can include any
ASCII character (with any quotation mark within the character-string represented by
two contiguous quotation marks).
non-PIC. See position-dependent code (non-PIC).
nonshared code. See position-dependent code (non-PIC).
NonStop operating system. See HP NonStop™ operating system.
NonStop Series architecture. See TNS architecture.
NonStop Series/Itanium architecture. See TNS/E architecture.
NonStop Series/RISC architecture. See TNS/R architecture.
numeric character. Any of the digits 0 through 9.
numeric-edited item. A data item described to contain numeric characters and the special
editing signs, which are: B, P, Z, CR, DB, plus (+), minus (–), asterisk (*), slash (/),
dollar sign ($), period (.), and comma (,).
numeric item. A data item described to contain only numeric characters and, if signed, a
plus sign (+), minus sign (–), or other representation of an operational sign
.