COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Contents

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

2. Source Program Organization and

Format (continued)

2. Source Program Organization and Format (continued)

Nested Source Programs 2-9

Directly Contained Programs and Indirectly Contained Programs 2-10

Scope of User-Defined Names 2-11

Common Programs 2-14

Programs in the Same Run Unit 2-14

Initial Programs 2-14

How Programs Share Resources 2-15

Global and Local Names 2-16

External and Internal Objects 2-17

Shared Data 2-18

Shared Files 2-24

3. Language Elements

COBOL Character Set 3-2

Punctuation Characters 3-4

Separators 3-4

Comments 3-6

Nonnumeric and National Literals 3-6

Numeric Literals and PICTURE Character-Strings 3-6

Character-Strings 3-6

COBOL Words 3-7

Literals 3-16

PICTURE Character-Strings 3-24

Comments 3-24

4. Data Fundamentals

Data Levels, Classes, and Categories 4-1

Data Structures 4-2

Level-Numbers 4-2

Records 4-4

Files 4-6

Tables 4-12

Data Representation 4-14

Data Alignment in Receiving Items 4-15

Data Alignment in Memory 4-15