COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Environment Division
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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RECEIVE-CONTROL Paragraph
REPLY CONTAINS phrase
specifies the number of characters of a reply message that are to be saved in the
reply table. The default is 0.
reply-length
is an unsigned integer numeric literal. Its value is the maximum number of
characters from a reply message to be saved in the reply table.
file-name
is the name of a file whose longest record’s length is the number of characters
from a reply message to be saved in the reply table.
ERROR CODE phrase
error
is an unsigned integer numeric item for storing an error code for a reply
message, which you must set. It can be in the Working-Storage Section, the
File Section, or the Linkage Section.
MESSAGE SOURCE phrase
REPLY
CONTAINS
reply-length
file-name
CHARACTERS
RECORD
VST066.vsd
ERROR
CODE
error
IS
VST067.vsd
MESSAGE
SOURCE
message
IS
VST068.vsd