COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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1 Introduction
This manual describes the HP COBOL for NonStop systems (HP COBOL) language
and explains how to use it to create TNS processes and TNS/R native processes. (The
COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs explains how to use the HP COBOL language to
create TNS/E native processes.)
Topics:
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HP COBOL Language
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Summary of Execution Modes
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HP COBOL Compilers for TNS and TNS/R Programs
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Guardian and OSS Environments
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Compiler Input
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Compiler Output
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Combining Separately Compiled Source Programs
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Executing Loadfiles
HP COBOL Language
The HP COBOL language, the implementation of the COBOL language by the Hewlett-
Packard Company, conforms to the standard published by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) in 1985. HP COBOL also provides extensions to the language that enable
COBOL programs to act as servers, as in a Pathway application (which uses TS/MP),
and to be fault tolerant.
Standard COBOL is described in American National Standard for Information Systems
Programming Language—COBOL, which has ANSI document number X3.23-1985
and ISO document number ISO 1989-1985, and the intrinsic function and correction
amendments, ANSI X3.23a-1989 and ANSI X3.23b-1993, ISO 1989:1985/Amd.1:1992
and ISO 1989:1985/Amd.2:1994. HP offers high-level standard COBOL with HP
extensions.