COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Data Division

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Extended-Storage Section

The Extended-Storage Section is similar to the Working-Storage Section, but it

describes data to be stored in the single area of extended memory each program can

address on a NonStop operating system. To have storage allocated for a data item in

the area of extended memory, you must either declare the data item explicitly in this

section or use the directive LARGEDATA.

01-data-description

77-data-description

describe data items for the process to use. You can specify initial values for most

of these data items. See Data Description Entries and Initializing Data Items.

There are limits to the number of records and level-77 items that a program can

contain. See Section 20, HP COBOL Limits.

66-or-88

is a level-66 or level-88 description. For syntax, see Descriptions That Rename

Items (Level 66) and Descriptions of Condition-Names for Values (Level 88).

The Extended-Storage Section, if present, must appear after any Working-Storage

Section. A program can have both sections, either section without the other, or neither

section.

Data Description Entries and Initializing Data Items

Data description entries and data initialization rules are the same in the Extended-

Storage Section as they are in the Working-Storage Section. See Data Description

Entries and Initializing Data Items.

Note. TNS/R HP COBOL does not need an Extended-Storage Section. The NMCOBOL

compiler handles any data items that are described in the Extended-Storage Section as if they

were described in the Working-Storage Section, without issuing a warning.

EXTENDED-STORAGE

SECTION

01-data-description

77-data-description

66-or-88

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