COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Program Execution
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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ASSIGN Command
name
is a spooler location or the name of a disk file, disk volume, tape device,
DEFINE, process, or terminal.
#IN
#OUT
#TERM
#TEMP
$RECEIVE
are explained in the usage considerations. They must be uppercase.
When only system-file is present, and all other clauses are omitted, the
current file for cobol-file-name is assigned.
characteristic
size-list
specifies the extent size for disk file creation. Extent sizes are specified as a
number of file pages to be allocated for one extent of the file. A file page is
2048 bytes of storage.
pri-extent-size
is an unsigned integer specifying the primary extent size. If EXT is omitted,
pri-extent-size defaults to 4.
EXT
CODE
REC
BLOCK
size-list
file-code
record-size
block-size
EXCLUSIVE
SHARED
PROTECTED
INPUT
OUTPUT
I-O
VST336.vsd
,
pri-extent-size
(
sec-extent-size
pri-extent-size
)
VST337.vsd