COBOL No. II : Programming Techniques, Efficiency Considerations, Debugging Techniques

Name: COBOL No. II : Programming Techniques, Efficiency Considerations, Debugging Techniques
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ISBN: 9780070065338

ISBN-10: 0070065330

ISBN-13: 9780070065338

Edition: 1990

Authors: Harvey Bookman

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Covers the latest COBOL releases, including Release 3.1. Bookman demonstrates programming techniques, reports on efficiency considerations, and describes debugging techniques. His audience: programmers who have used VS COBOL and want to learn COBOL II, those who know the basics of COBOL II and want to learn more, and those who know COBOL II Release 2 and will be using Release 3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 297
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Preface	p. xv
COBOL II Release 2	p. 1
Release 2--VS COBOL Features Eliminated and Conversions	p. 3
COBOL II Releases	p. 3
Release 1	p. 3
Release 2	p. 3
Release 3	p. 4
Features Completely Eliminated	p. 5
Search All Statement Syntax	p. 5
Ready Trace	p. 7
ON Statement	p. 8
Inspect, Examine, and Transform	p. 9
Exhibit and Display	p. 10
List Command in COBOL Debugger	p. 12
Accept and Move of Date and Time	p. 13
Remarks and Note	p. 15
Qualification of Index Names	p. 15
Reserved Words	p. 15
Inconsistencies between VS COBOL and COBOL II	p. 16
Unexpected and Concealed COBOL II Differences	p. 17
Conversion	p. 18
Updated Features from VS COBOL to Release 2	p. 21
Extended File Status Codes	p. 21
Occurs Depending On	p. 25
Floating-Point Numbers	p. 26
Exponentiation	p. 28
Value Clauses	p. 29
Call Statements	p. 29
Performs	p. 32
Traditional Out-of-Line Performs	p. 32
In-Line Performs	p. 33
Error Processing	p. 35
Compiler Limits	p. 36
Level Numbers	p. 37
Copy Statement	p. 38
Sections	p. 38
When-Compiled Special Register	p. 39
New Features in Release 2	p. 41
Explicit Scope Terminators	p. 41
Continue Statement	p. 42
Initialize Statement	p. 42
Replacing Clause	p. 43
Group Items	p. 44
Evaluate Statement	p. 46
Comparison of Evaluate and If Statements	p. 46
Placing Expressions in the Evaluate or When Portions	p. 49
Using the Thru Clause	p. 50
Set Statement	p. 52
Title Statement	p. 53
Double Byte Character Set (DBCS)	p. 53
DBCS Class Test	p. 55
Service Routines for DBCS Manipulation	p. 55
Updates to Compiler Options	p. 57
Compiler Option Name Changes	p. 57
Flag Option	p. 58
Ssrange Option	p. 58
Rent and Data Options	p. 61
AMODE and RMODE	p. 62
NUMPROC Option	p. 63
FASTSRT Option	p. 65
TEST Option	p. 67
The Interactive Debugger	p. 68
Batch Mode Debugger	p. 70
Replacement of VS COBOL Ready Trace	p. 72
Replacement of VS COBOL Flow	p. 73
Replacement of VS COBOL Count	p. 74
When Command	p. 74
COBOL Compiler Options Assumed by Debug	p. 76
Updates to Compiler Listings and Procedures	p. 77
Program and Statement Nesting Levels	p. 77
Cross-References	p. 79
Imbedded Cross-Reference	p. 79
Cross-Reference of Data-Names	p. 81
Cross-Reference of Procedures	p. 82
Cross-Reference of Programs	p. 83
Compiler Options	p. 83
Options Shown in Listing	p. 83
Locating Options in a Module	p. 84
Error Messages	p. 84
Catalogued JCL Procedures	p. 87
COBOL II in Special Environments	p. 89
COBOL II and CICS	p. 89
Restrictions Lifted	p. 89
Bll Cells No Longer Defined	p. 90
Pointer Fields	p. 92
Address Of Special Register	p. 92
CICS Set Parameter	p. 93
Null Pointers	p. 95
Linked Lists	p. 95
Length Of Special Register	p. 96
Other CICS Changes	p. 98
Debugging under CICS	p. 98
COBOL II Programs Running under IMS	p. 99
Coding Restrictions	p. 99
Compiler Options	p. 99
Link-Edit Requirements	p. 100
Running VS COBOL Programs under IMS Using the COBOL II Libraries	p. 100
COBOL II Programs Running under CMS	p. 101
CMS Differences	p. 101
CMS Compiler Options	p. 101
Program Compilation under CMS	p. 101
Executing under CMS	p. 103
COBOL II Release 3	p. 105
Release 3 Updates	p. 107
CMPR2 Option	p. 107
Alphabetic Condition	p. 108
Occurs Depending On	p. 108
Record Clause	p. 111
Matching Record Definitions	p. 111
Variable Length Record Size	p. 112
Call ... On Overflow	p. 114
Exit Statement	p. 115
Exit Program	p. 116
Perform Statements	p. 117
Perform Ranges	p. 117
Perform Varying Differences	p. 117
New File Status Codes Added	p. 119
Table Handling Changes	p. 120
Subscripting and Indexing Changes	p. 120
Value Clause in Tables	p. 120
Sort and Merge Statements	p. 123
Filler Data Name	p. 125
De-editing of Numeric Edited Fields	p. 126
Binary and Packed-Decimal Fields	p. 126
Upper-and Lowercase Code	p. 127
Nonnumeric Literals	p. 127
Relation Conditions	p. 128
Intermediate Results	p. 128
Add...To...Giving	p. 128
Obsolete Elements of COBOL	p. 128
Label Records Clause	p. 129
Alter Statement and Altered Go To	p. 129
Optional Paragraphs in the Identification Division	p. 129
Other Obsolete Elements	p. 130
File Organization	p. 130
String and Unstring	p. 130
Not at end, Not Invalid Key	p. 130
Not on Size Error	p. 131
Program Collating Sequence	p. 131
New Release 3 Features	p. 133
External Attributes	p. 133
External Attribute in the Working-Storage Section	p. 133
External Attribute with Files	p. 134
Nested Programs	p. 134
Common Attribute	p. 136
Global Attribute	p. 137
Uses of Nested Programs	p. 140
Initial Attribute	p. 141
Reference Modification	p. 142
Integer Constants as Reference Modifiers	p. 143
Data Items as Reference Modifiers	p. 143
Reference Modifiers with Variable Length Fields	p. 145
Subscripting and Reference Modification Combined	p. 145
Compilation Error Messages Affected by Reference Modification	p. 146
Replace Statement	p. 146
New Compiler Options	p. 147
AWO Option	p. 147
TRUNC Option	p. 149
FLAGSAA Option	p. 149
LANGUAGE Option	p. 150
DBCS Option	p. 150
Program Nesting Levels in the Compiler Listing	p. 152
Programming Techniques	p. 153
Coding Techniques	p. 155
Movement of Data in COBOL II	p. 155
Elementary versus Group Moves	p. 155
Moves Involving Numeric Data	p. 155
De-editing	p. 159
DBCS Data Items	p. 159
Working with Multiple Fields	p. 160
Moving to Multiple Fields	p. 160
Adding to Multiple Fields	p. 160
Truncation During Fixed-Point Arithmetic Operations	p. 161
Floating-Point Precision	p. 162
User Requested Abends	p. 162
Efficient Coding Overview	p. 165
Why Coding Efficiency Still Makes Sense	p. 165
Efficient Code Is Easier to Follow	p. 166
Efficient Code Can Be Written Just As Quickly	p. 166
Program Monitors and Code Optimizers	p. 168
Instruction Speeds	p. 169
General COBOL II Efficiency Differences from VS COBOL	p. 171
The IBM Optimizer	p. 171
Library Routine CALLs	p. 173
Arithmetic on COMP-3 Fields	p. 173
Clearing Fields	p. 174
Efficiency Differences When Running VS COBOL Programs under COBOL II	p. 174
COBOL II Efficient Coding Techniques	p. 177
Arithmetic Efficiencies	p. 177
Types of Arithmetic Fields	p. 177
Compiler Options	p. 178
Number of Decimal Places	p. 178
Lengths of Arithmetic Fields	p. 179
Use of Signs	p. 180
Use of Rounding	p. 180
Compute versus Other Arithmetic Statements	p. 181
Arithmetic Operations	p. 182
IF Statements	p. 182
Immediate Instructions	p. 183
Complex IF Statements	p. 184
Data Movement	p. 184
Perform and Go To	p. 186
Go to Depending on	p. 190
Calls	p. 190
Table Searching	p. 191
Partitioned Search	p. 192
Table Handling	p. 192
File Processing	p. 194
Variable Length Records	p. 194
Blocking	p. 195
Opening and Closing Files	p. 196
Read Into	p. 197
Compiler Options	p. 199
Compilation Time	p. 200
Options Guiding the Compiler	p. 200
Compile/Nocompile	p. 200
Object/Noobject and Deck/Nodeck	p. 202
Size	p. 202
Quote and Apost	p. 203
Lib/Nolib	p. 203
Compiler Listing Directives	p. 203
List/Nolist and Offset/Nooffset	p. 203
Map/Nomap	p. 205
Xref/Noxref	p. 205
Number/Nonumber	p. 205
Sequence/Nosequence	p. 206
Debugging Options	p. 206
Test/Notest	p. 206
Fdump/Nofdump	p. 207
Options Affecting Program Execution	p. 209
Trunc	p. 209
Dynam/Nodynam	p. 215
Resident/Noresident	p. 219
Adv/Noadv	p. 220
Optimize/Nooptimize	p. 220
Outdd	p. 223
Run-Time Options	p. 223
Ssrange/Nossrange	p. 224
Stae/Nostae	p. 224
Aixbld/Noaixbld	p. 226
Debugging Techniques	p. 227
Reading Data, Program, and Procedure Maps	p. 229
Reading a COBOL II Data Map	p. 229
Reading a Nested Program Map	p. 232
Reading a COBOL II Procedure Map	p. 233
Procedure Map When Using COMP-3 Fields	p. 235
Procedure Map When Using DISPLAY Fields	p. 236
Procedure Map When Using Data in the Linkage Section	p. 237
Procedure Map for an IF Statement	p. 238
Procedure Map for an OPEN	p. 239
Procedure Map for the Evaluate Statement	p. 241
Procedure Map When Comparing Display Numeric Fields	p. 241
Procedure Map When Using Binary (Comp) Fields	p. 242
Initialization of Working-Storage	p. 243
Reading a Condensed Listing	p. 246
The COBOL Task Global Table (TGT)	p. 249
Why Understanding the TGT Is Important	p. 249
Format of the TGT	p. 250
The TGT in a Compilation Listing	p. 251
How the Rent and Norent Options Affect the TGT	p. 251
Locating the TGT	p. 254
Specific Fields in the TGT	p. 255
Index Cells	p. 255
Base Locators	p. 256
Base Locators for Linkage Section	p. 256
Temporary Storage Fields	p. 257
Variable Length Cells	p. 258
72 Byte Save Area	p. 258
Fcb Cells	p. 259
DCB and FCB Locations Listed after the TGT	p. 260
Understanding ABENDs and Program Exceptions	p. 261
Comparison of Abends and Program Exceptions	p. 261
System and User ABENDs	p. 262
Program Exceptions	p. 262
Operation Exception (OC1)	p. 263
Privileged Operation (OC2) and Execute (OC3) Exceptions	p. 265
Protection Exception (OC4) and Addressing Exception (OC5)	p. 265
Specification Exception (OC6)	p. 266
Decimal Data Exception (OC7)	p. 267
Program Exceptions OC8 through OCB	p. 267
Program Exceptions OCC through OCF	p. 268
Analyzing an Abend	p. 268
Identifying Messages in a Job Log	p. 269
Epilogue	p. 271
Element Differences between COBOL Versions	p. 273
Compiler Options Differences between COBOL Versions	p. 279
Mutually Exclusive COBOL II Compiler Options	p. 283
Index	p. 285
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