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Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual—426750-001

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Field-Characteristic Clauses

literal-1

is a numeric literal that specifies the number of field occurrences on a line.

literal-k

is a numeric literal that specifies the horizontal spacing of the field columns.

When OFFSET is specified, literal-k is the number of spaces between the first

column of a field occurrence (literal-1) and the first column of the next field

occurrence (literal-1 +1) on the same line.

When SKIPPING is specified, literal-k is the number of spaces between the

last column of a field occurrence (column k) and the first column of the next field

occurrence (column k+1) on the same line. There can be at most (literal-1) -1

separations. If there are fewer separations, the last literal-k is used repeatedly.

No separation is required after the last literal.

literal-2

is a numeric literal that specifies how many lines contain occurrences.

literal-3

is a numeric literal that specifies how many lines are skipped between lines

containing occurrences of the field.

DEPENDING

indicates that the number of occurrences is variable.

data-name-1

is the unsubscripted name of an elementary numeric item where the current number

of occurrences is defined. This item must be defined in the Working-Storage

Section or Linkage Section. On input (execution of an ACCEPT statement), this

item is set. On output (execution of a DISPLAY statement), this item is used to

define the number of values output. If FILL and OCCURS clauses are both used

with a field, on output the FILL clause applies to all occurrences of the field,

regardless of the setting of data-name-1 in a DEPENDING ON clause.

The following conventions apply to the OCCURS clause:

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When the IN...COLUMNS phrase is omitted, a single occurrence on each line is

indicated.

•

The order of the phrases determines the order in which the occurrence numbers are

assigned to the occurrences.

If the ON...LINES phrase is specified first, the occurrences are numbered

sequentially from line to line down a column.

If the IN...COLUMNS phrase is specified first, the occurrences across a line are

numbered sequentially.