COBOL USAGE CLAUSES

 

BINARY

COMP

COMP-1

COMP-2

COMP-3

COMP-4

COMP-5

COMP-6

DISPLAY

DISPLAY-1

INDEX

NATIONAL

PACKED-DECIMAL

POINTER

PROCEDURE-POINTER

FUNCTION-POINTER

OBJECT-REFERENCE

 

  Integer Data in Binary Format

Integer Data in Binary Format (same as BINARY)

Single precision floating point in hexadecimal format

Double precision floating point in hexadecimal format

Integer data in Packed decimal / 8421 code

Integer Data in Binary (same as COMP/BINARY)

Integer Data in Native/Extended Binary (No Truncation)

Unsigned Packed Decimal (No Sign)

EBCDIC Char string with single byte per character

EBCDIC Char string with two bytes per character

32 Bit Binary Format to hold the displacement of a table

Unicode Char string (UTF-16) with one byte per character

Integer data in Packed decimal / 8421 code  (as COMP-3)

32 Bit Binary Format to hold the address of a variable

32 Bit Binary data to hold the address of Program Entry

32 Bit Binary data to hold the address of Program Entry

Handle for accessing a class in OO Cobol

 

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