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Terms  figurative constant   file clause   file connector   file control entry   file description entry   file organization   file position indicator   FILE SECTION   file system   FILE-CONTROL paragraph   file-name   fixed file attributes  ..more

figurative constant [Cobol/Syntax]
A compiler-generated value referenced through the use of certain reserved words.
file clause [Cobol/Syntax]
A clause that appears as part of any of the following DATA DIVISION entries: file description entry (FD entry) and sort- ...
file connector [Cobol/Syntax]
A storage area that contains information about a file and is used as the linkage between a file-name and a physical file ...
file control entry [Cobol/Syntax]
A SELECT clause and all its subordinate clauses that declare the relevant physical attributes of a file.
file description entry [Cobol/Syntax]
An entry in the FILE SECTION of the DATA DIVISION that is composed of the level indicator FD, followed by a file-name, a ...
file organization [Cobol/Syntax]
The permanent logical file structure established at the time that a file is created.
file position indicator [Cobol/Syntax]
A conceptual entity that contains the value of the current key within the key of reference for an indexed file, or the r ...
FILE SECTION [Cobol/Syntax]
The section of the DATA DIVISION that contains file description entries and sort-merge file description entries together ...
file system [Cobol/Syntax]
The collection of files that conform to a specific set of data-record and file-description protocols, and a set of progr ...
FILE-CONTROL paragraph [Cobol/Syntax]
A paragraph in the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in which the data files for a given source unit are declared.