COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

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HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Parameters (continued)
established with =_SORT_DEFAULTS
DEFINE 13-26
extensible 23-13
for operating system routines 23-10
formal, adding 23-13
index values as 9-28
lists of 23-13
numeric literals as 23-22
omitted 9-60, 11-23
passing
See Passing parameters
presenting 11-22
records as 23-23
reference 33-10
replacing code blocks and 24-16
string:length 9-60, 9-65, 23-33, 33-4
tables as 23-22
validation of 9-27
variable 23-13
Parentheses
as separators 3-5
in arithmetic expressions 8-47
in conditions 8-68
Partitioned disk files 28-2, 28-37
Pascal routines
addressing parameters in 9-63
calling 9-58
in TNS user library 24-19
migrating to native mode 33-5
passing parameters to 23-31/23-32
restrictions on 9-64, 23-19
run-time environment for 23-2
Passing parameters
description of 23-19/23-34
by content 9-21, 23-21/23-22
by reference 9-21, 9-61, 11-23, 23-23
by value 9-21, 9-61, 11-22, 23-23
CALL statement and 9-27/9-28
Passing parameters (continued)
COMPUTATIONAL-5 7-75
FORTRAN, to TAL routines 9-65
to COBOL programs 23-24/23-25
to non-COBOL routines
description of 23-25/23-34
C and C++ 23-26/23-29
FORTRAN 23-29/23-30
Pascal 23-31/23-32
TAL 23-32/23-34
Passwords, remote 28-6
Pathnames for OSS files 19-8/19-9
PC-to-NonStop host transfer tools 34-11
PEP (program entry point) table 24-17
PERFORM cycle 9-158
PERFORM LOOP field 9-286
PERFORM statement
description of 9-157/9-177
CALL statement and 9-26
initial state of program and 12-24
status during program execution 12-25
PERFORM-TRACE directive 11-103
Period (.)
See also Decimal point
as separator 3-5
format restrictions on 2-7
in delimited-scope IF statement 9-84
in PICTURE clause 3-24, 7-57, 7-64
PERUSE utility 22-14, 30-3, 30-11/30-15
Physical records 4-4
PIC
See Position-independent code (PIC)
PICTURE character-strings
description of 3-24
editing characters in 3-24
punctuation characters in 3-6
size of 7-55