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
extend-file-description
for a sequential, relative, indexed, or queue file:
for a line sequential file:
extfile
is the file description file name of a sequential file to open in EXTEND
mode, for write operations that append records to the file. The file is
positioned after the last logical record when opened. All operations on the
file must be write operations, as if the file had been opened in OUTPUT
mode. If the file is an Enscribe unstructured file, its size must be a multiple
of the record size.
TIME LIMITS
SHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
sync
are the same as described earlier for infile.
extfile
WITH
TIME LIMITS
SYNCDEPTH syncSHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
VST191.vsd
extfile
SHARED
PROTECTED
EXCLUSIVE
VST629.vsd