iTS 1.0+)

Environment Division

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

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SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph

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Field-characteristic clause MUST BE—Range tests are not supported for national

use characters.

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Tests that involve collating sequence matters—Any comparison tests, such as less-

than or greater-than relations, are not supported for national-use characters.

SPECIAL-NAMES Paragraph

The optional SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph allows you to select names and to have

those names assigned to certain system names. The paragraph also matches features of a

specific terminal with the words used in the program to refer to those features. With

careful use of the correspondences established in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph, you

can remove much of the dependence on terminal type from the body of the program unit.

The SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph syntax is:

mnemonic-name

is an identifier you select to be associated with a sys-name and can be used later

in the Screen Section or the Procedure Division of the program to refer to a function

key or display attribute indicated by sys-name.

A list of system names can be equated to a single mnemonic-name only if the

system names refer to display attributes that can be combined. This causes the

mnemonic-name to represent the combination of the display attributes. Except

for terminals in the IBM 3270 family, only highlight display attributes can be

combined.

sys-name

specifies a function key or display attribute available on the terminal. Table 4-1 lists

the system names for function keys; Table 4-2

lists the system names for display

attributes.

SPECIAL-NAMES.

[ { mnemonic-name IS { sys-name } } ,... ]

[ { { ( { sys-name } ,... ) } } ]

[ , CURRENCY [ SIGN ] IS literal-1 ]

[ , DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA ] .