Programmer's Guide to Writing Programs
Table of Contents
Index
Chapter 3: System Limits and Programming Restrictions
3.1 COBOL System Limits
3.1.1 Command Line Length
3.1.2 Compiler Limits
3.1.3 Run-time System Limits
3.1.4 Operating System and Environment Variable Limits
3.1.5 Maximum core heap size
3.2 Programming Restrictions
3.2.1 COBOL Syntax Not Implemented
3.2.2 Areas to Avoid
3.2.3 CHAIN Statement
3.2.4 ENTRY Statement
3.2.5 Filenames
3.2.6 Floating-point Literals
3.2.7 Local-Storage Section
3.2.8 PERFORM Nesting
3.2.9 Program Size
3.2.10 Screens Utility
3.2.11 Size of Numbers
3.2.12 Segmented Programs