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- packed-decimal data item
[Cobol/Syntax]
- See internal decimal data item.
- padding character
[Cobol/Syntax]
- An alphanumeric or national character that is used to fill the unused character positions in a physical record.
- page
[Cobol/Concept]
- A vertical division of output data that represents a physical separation of the data. The separation is based on interna ...
- page body
[Cobol/Concept]
- That part of the logical page in which lines can be written or spaced or both.
- paragraph
[Cobol/Syntax]
- In the PROCEDURE DIVISION, a paragraph-name followed by a separator period and by zero, one, or more sentences. In the I ...
- paragraph header
[Cobol/Syntax]
- A reserved word, followed by the separator period, that indicates the beginning of a paragraph in the IDENTIFICATION DIV ...
- paragraph-name
[Cobol/Syntax]
- A user-defined word that identifies and begins a paragraph in the PROCEDURE DIVISION.
- parameter
[Cobol/Syntax]
- (1) Data passed between a calling program and a called program ...
- phrase
[Cobol/Syntax]
- An ordered set of one or more consecutive COBOL character strings that form a portion of a COBOL procedural statement or ...
- physical record
[Cobol/Syntax]
- See block.