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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.
file-name [Cobol/Syntax]
A user-defined word that names a file connector described in a file description entry or a sort-merge file description e ...
fixed file attributes [Cobol/Syntax]
Information about a file that is established when a file is created and that cannot subsequently be changed during the e ...
fixed-length record [Cobol/Syntax]
A record associated with a file whose file description or sort-merge description entry requires that all records contain ...
fixed-point item [Cobol/Syntax]
A numeric data item defined with a PICTURE clause that specifies the location of an optional sign, the number of digits ...
floating point [Cobol/Syntax]
A format for representing numbers in which a real number is represented by a pair of distinct numerals. In a floating-po ...