COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Procedure Division Verbs
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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OPEN
i-o-file-description
for a sequential, relative, indexed, or queue file:
for a line sequential file:
iofile
is the file description file name of a file to open in I-O mode, for both read
and write operations.
TIME LIMITS
SHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
sync
are the same as described earlier for infile.
EXTEND
specifies that the file or files in extend-file-description are being
opened for writing additional data following any existing data.
iofile
WITH
TIME LIMITS
SYNCDEPTH sync
SHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
VST190.vsd
iofile
SHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
VST626.vsd