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- abend
[Cobol/Event]
- Abnormal termination of a program.
- access mode
[Cobol/Concept]
- The manner in which records are to be operated upon within a file.
- alphabet-name
[Cobol/Syntax]
- A user-defined word, in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph of the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, that assigns a name to a specific chara ...
- alphabetic
[Cobol/Syntax]
- (1) A letter or a space character ...
- alphanumeric
[Cobol/Syntax]
- (1) A group item that is defined without a GROUP-USAGE NATIONAL clause. For operations such as INSPECT, STRING, and UNST ...
- alphanumeric character
[Cobol/Syntax]
- (1) Any character in the single-byte character set of the computer ...
- alphanumeric-edited
[Cobol/Syntax]
- A data item that is described by a PICTURE character string that contains at least one instance of the symbol A or X and ...
- alternate record key
[Cobol/Syntax]
- A key, other than the prime record key, whose contents identify a record within an indexed file.
- ANSI
[Cobol/Standards]
- (American National Standards Institute ...
- argument
[Cobol/Syntax]
- (1) An identifier, a literal, an arithmetic expression, or a function-identifier that specifies a value to be used in th ...