iTS 1.0+)

SCREEN COBOL Compiler Diagnostic Messages

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

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120

Type. Warning

Cause. A PICTURE character string should not be written as a nonnumeric literal. The

SCREEN COBOL compiler accepts the contents of the nonnumeric literal as the

PICTURE character string.

121

Type. Error

Cause. The SCREEN COBOL language limits the representation of a PICTURE

character string to 30 characters. Data items with more than 30 character positions must

be described with parenthesized repetition counts.

122

Type. Error

Cause. The SCREEN COBOL language supports a maximum of 18 digits in a numeric

or numeric edited data item.

123

Type. Error

Cause. SCREEN COBOL supports a maximum of 32,000 character positions for an

elementary data item.

124

Type. Error

Cause. The PICTURE character string does not conform to SCREEN COBOL syntax.

Some of the causes for this message are illegal characters, unmatched parentheses,

improper combinations of otherwise legal characters, and pictures with no positions for

data characters.

DO NOT QUOTE PICTURE STRING

PICTURE STRING EXCEEDS 30 CHARACTERS

TOO MANY DIGIT POSITIONS

TOO MANY CHARACTER POSITIONS

ILLEGAL PICTURE STRING