COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Index
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
Index-3
A
Apostrophe (')
in national literal 3-21
in simple nonnumeric literal 3-19
Approximate positioning 28-24
ar utility 34-10
Arccosine function 14-8
Archive files 34-10
Arcsine function 14-11
Arctangent function 14-12
Area A
in ANSI reference format 16-4
in Tandem reference format 2-6
paragraph headers and 8-12
Area B
in ANSI reference format 16-4
in Tandem reference format 2-6
Arithmetic expressions
description of 8-45, 8-48
as parameters 14-7, 23-22
precision of 8-51/8-53
summary of 38-8/38-9
Arithmetic mean function 14-31
Arithmetic operands 8-46
Arithmetic operations 8-42/8-53
Arithmetic operators 8-46
Arithmetic overflow
COBOL85^ARMTRAP and 13-39
COMPUTATIONAL data format
and 8-25
error messages for 48-8
in CRE 18-6
TRAP2 and NOTRAP2 and 11-132
TRAP2-74 and NOTRAP2-74
and 11-134
Arithmetic precision 8-48/8-53
Arithmetic statements
description of 8-42
common features of 8-43
ASCII character set
in alphabetic order A-6
in numeric order A-1
ASIN function 14-11
ASSIGN clause
description of 6-25
file type and 6-24
for indexed file 6-48
for line sequential file 6-39, 19-13
for relative file 6-41
for sequential file 6-29
for sort-merge file 6-55
ASSIGN command
description of 12-4/12-9
compared to DEFINE 12-19
for overriding file assignments 25-3
for specifying file characteristics 25-4
maximum number of 25-4
OSS environment and 19-23
showing active ones 25-8
#DYNAMIC and 26-9
ASSIGN message portions 13-36
Associating COBOL and system file
names 26-5/26-9
Asterisk (*)
as arithmetic operator 8-46
in ANSI reference format 16-2
in EXECUTION-L0G parameter 12-13
in PICTURE clause 3-24, 7-57, 7-67
in Tandem reference format 2-4
AT END phrase
See also At-end condition
in READ statement
for line sequential file 9-194, 19-21
for other files 9-180, 9-185, 9-187,
9-189
in RETURN statement 9-201
in SEARCH ALL statement 9-218
in SEARCH VARYING statement 9-212