Attributes of DECLARE Statements

This section describes, in alphabetical order, the attributes that are permitted in a DECLARE statement.

The discussion of each attribute assumes that the attributes have been made complete by the application of defaults, as described in the section Defaults.

Each attribute discussed in this section falls into one of the following categories:

• Arithmetic or string data attributes, which define arithmetic or string data.
  • ALIGNED
  • BIGENDIAN
  • BINARY
  • BIT
  • CHARACTER
  • DECIMAL
  • FIXED
  • FLOAT
  • NATIVE
  • NONNATIVE
  • PICTURE
  • REAL
  • SIGNED
  • UNALIGNED
  • UNSIGNED
  • VARYING
• Data type attributes, which apply to program data not used for computation.
  • AREA
  • CONDITION
  • DIMENSION
  • ENTRY
  • EXCLUSIVE
  • FILE
  • GENERIC [2]
  • LABEL
  • LIKE
  • OFFSET
  • POINTER
  • TYPE
• Storage class and scope attributes, which control the allocation and storage use for a data variable and define the variable's scope.
  • AUTOMATIC
  • BASED
  • CONTROLLED
  • CONNECTED
  • DEFINED
  • EXTERNAL
  • GLOBALDEF
  • GLOBALREF
  • INITIAL
  • INTERNAL
  • NOINIT
  • NONCONNECTED
  • PARAMETER
  • POSITION
  • READONLY
  • REFER
  • STATIC
  • UNION
• File description attributes, which can be applied to file constants or may be used in OPEN statements (except ENVIRONMENT, which can be used only in the DECLARE statement).
  • DIRECT
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • INPUT
  • KEYED
  • OUTPUT
  • PRINT
  • RECORD
  • SEQUENTIAL
  • STREAM
  • UPDATE
• Entry name attributes, which can be applied to identifiers of entry points. These include:
  • BUILTIN
  • ENTRY
  • IRREDUCIBLE
  • OPTIONS(DESCRIPTOR)
  • OPTIONS(NODESCRIPTOR)
  • OPTIONS(VARIABLE)
  • REDUCIBLE
  • RETURNS
  • VARIABLE
• Argument-passing attributes, which describe parameters of external procedures. These include:
  • ANY
  • BYVALUE
  • INONLY
  • INOUT
  • OPTIONAL
  • OUTONLY