| COBOL Clause |
Allowed as Input to Task Builder? |
Comments |
| BLANK WHEN ZERO |
Yes |
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| COPY |
No |
Insert referenced files manually. |
| DATE FORMAT |
Yes |
Two particular formats, DATE FORMAT YYYYXXXX, and DATE FORMAT XXXXYYYY, are converted to the built-in datatype xsd:date as defined in W3C XML Schema Datatypes. In this year-2000 COBOL enhancement, YYYY is the year; XXXX is the month and day-of-the-month. All other COBOL date formats are converted to an integer representation, not datatype xsd:date. |
| EXTERNAL |
No |
Cannot be used in the linkage area. |
| GLOBAL |
No |
Not relevant to Task Builder for IMS. |
| JUSTIFIED |
Yes |
-- |
| OCCURS |
Partially |
Supported for fixed-length tables. ASCENDING and INDEXED BY phrases are ignored. Also supported for variable-length tables, as indicated by the OCCURS DEPENDING ON phrase. For additional information, refer to Using an OCCURS DEPENDING ON Clause. |
| PICTURE |
Yes |
G and N picture symbols are not supported. B picture symbol is supported only for non-DBCS (Double-Byte Character Set) data. |
| REDEFINES |
Yes |
For more information, see Using a REDEFINES Clause. |
| RENAMES |
No |
Level 66 items. |
| SIGN |
Yes |
-- |
| SYNCHRONIZED |
No |
-- |
| USAGE |
Yes |
Supported data types are BINARY, COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2, COMP-3, COMP-4, DISPLAY (the default), and PACKED. The machine-dependent DISPLAY-1 and COMP-5 data types are not supported, nor are POINTER, PROCEDURE-POINTER, nor INDEX. |
| VALUE |
Yes |
Level 88 VALUE items are ignored. |
