Compaq COBOL
Reference Manual

Contents

Preface
Preface	Preface
Chapter 1
1	Overview of the COBOL Language
1.1	The COBOL Character Set
1.2	Character Strings
1.2.1	COBOL Words
1.2.1.1	User-Defined Words
1.2.1.2	System-Names
1.2.1.3	Reserved Words
1.2.1.4	Function-Names
1.2.2	Literals
1.2.2.1	Numeric Literals
1.2.2.2	Nonnumeric Literals
1.2.3	Figurative Constants
1.2.4	PICTURE Character-Strings
1.2.5	Separators
1.3	Source Reference Format
1.3.1	ANSI Format
1.3.2	Terminal Format
1.4	Sample Entry Format
Chapter 2
2	Organization of a COBOL Program
2.1	Program Structure
2.1.1	Division Header
2.1.2	Section Header
2.1.3	Paragraph, Paragraph Header, Paragraph-Name
2.2	Data Division Entries
2.3	Declaratives
Chapter 3
3	Identification Division
3.1	Function
3.1.1	PROGRAM-ID Paragraph
3.1.2	AUTHOR
3.1.3	DATE-COMPILED
3.1.4	OPTIONS
Chapter 4
4	Environment Division
4.1	CONFIGURATION Section
4.1.1	SOURCE-COMPUTER
4.1.2	OBJECT-COMPUTER
4.1.3	SPECIAL-NAMES
4.2	INPUT-OUTPUT Section
4.2.1	FILE_CONTROL
4.2.2	ASSIGN
4.2.3	BLOCK CONTAINS
4.2.4	CODE-SET
4.2.5	LOCK MODE
4.2.6	ORGANIZATION
4.2.7	PADDING CHARACTER
4.2.8	RECORD DELIMITER (OpenVMS)
4.2.9	RESERVE
4.2.10	I-O-CONTROL
Chapter 5
5	Data Division
5.1	Logical Concepts of Data Storage
5.1.1	Record Description Entries
5.1.2	Level-Numbers
5.1.3	Multiple Record Description Entries for the Same Data
5.2	Physical Concepts of Data Storage
5.2.1	Categories and Classes of Data
5.2.2	COBOL Standard Alignment Rules
5.2.3	Additional Alignment Rules for Record Allocation
5.2.4	Alpha Alignment and Padding
5.3	DATA DIVISION General Format and Rules
5.3.1	FD (File Description) Sequential, Line Sequential, Relative, Indexed, and Report File Descriptions
5.3.2	SD (Sort-Merge File Description)
5.3.3	RD (Report Description)
5.3.4	Data Description
5.3.5	Report Group Description
5.3.6	Screen Description
5.3.7	ACCESS MODE
5.3.8	ALTERNATE RECORD KEY
5.3.9	AUTO
5.3.10	BACKGROUND-COLOR
5.3.11	BELL
5.3.12	BLANK
5.3.13	BLANK WHEN ZERO
5.3.14	BLINK
5.3.15	CODE
5.3.16	COLUMN NUMBER
5.3.17	CONTROL
5.3.18	Data-Name
5.3.19	DATA RECORDS
5.3.20	ERASE
5.3.21	EXTERNAL
5.3.22	FILE STATUS
5.3.23	FOREGROUND-COLOR
5.3.24	FULL
5.3.25	GLOBAL
5.3.26	GROUP INDICATE
5.3.27	HIGHLIGHT
5.3.28	JUSTIFIED
5.3.29	LABEL RECORDS
5.3.30	Level-Number
5.3.31	LINAGE
5.3.32	LINE NUMBER
5.3.33	LOWLIGHT
5.3.34	NEXT GROUP
5.3.35	OCCURS
5.3.36	PAGE
5.3.37	PICTURE
5.3.38	RECORD
5.3.39	RECORD KEY
5.3.40	REDEFINES
5.3.41	RENAMES
5.3.42	REPORT
5.3.43	REQUIRED
5.3.44	REVERSE-VIDEO
5.3.45	SECURE
5.3.46	SIGN
5.3.47	SOURCE
5.3.48	SUM
5.3.49	SYNCHRONIZED
5.3.50	TYPE
5.3.51	UNDERLINE
5.3.52	USAGE
5.3.53	VALUE IS
5.3.54	VALUE OF ID