| ACCEPTREFRESH |
ACCEPT statement |
| ACTUAL-PARAMS |
Specify actual parameters that are
substituted for formal parameters in a parameterized class or interface |
| ADDRSV |
Add reserved word |
| ADDSYN |
Add synonym |
| ADV |
Insert control character at start of
line |
| ALIGN |
Data alignment |
| ALPHASTART |
Numbering in ALPHABET |
| ALTER |
Allow ALTER |
| AMODE |
Compatibility with mainframe-style
pointers |
| ANIM |
For animating |
| ANS85 |
ANSI'85 |
| APOST |
Interpret QUOTE as the single-quote
character ('). |
| AREACHECK |
Area A check |
| ARITHMETIC |
Evaluate expressions |
| ASSIGN |
EXTERNAL or DYNAMIC |
| ASSIGN-PRINTER |
Printer output |
| AUTOLOCK |
Default locking |
| BELL |
Beep when stop |
| BOUND |
Bound-check |
| BOUNDOPT |
Optimize tables |
| BRIEF |
No message texts |
| BS2000 |
Ensure that words reserved under the
Siemens BS2000 COBOL dialect are reserved words in this COBOL system |
| BWZSTAR |
BWZ with PIC * |
| BYTE-MODE-MOVE |
Control overlapping moves |
| CALL-RECOVERY |
Check the current call recovery state |
| CALLFH |
External file handler |
| CALLMCS |
External MCS handler |
| CALLSORT |
External sort handler |
| CANCEL |
Programs will be canceled by the RTS for
CANCEL and CHAIN and other circumstances |
| CANCELLBR |
Close COPY .lbr file |
| CASE |
Case of program-name |
| CHANGE-MESSAGE |
Change message severity |
| CHARSET |
ASCII or EBCDIC |
| CHECK |
Turn on all run-time checks in generated
code |
| CHECKDIV |
Allow divide by zero |
| CHECKNUM |
Check numeric fields |
| CICSECM |
Enable CICS |
| CMPR2 |
Mainframe compiler compatibility |
| COBFSTATCONV |
EXTFH status codes |
| COBIDY |
Path for debugger file |
| COBOL370 |
IBM COBOL 370 |
| COBOLDIR |
Use/ignore cobol.dir |
| COMP |
Computational subset |
| COMP-5 |
COMP-5 behavior |
| COMP-6 |
COMP-6 items format |
| COMP5-BYTE-ORDER |
Byte
ordering for COMP-5 data. |
| COMS85 |
ANSI'85 Communications |
| CONFIRM |
Display directives |
| CONSTANT |
Define constant |
| CONVERTRET |
RETURNING item type |
| CONVSPACE |
Source code spaces |
| COPYEXT |
Copyfile extensions |
| COPYLBR |
Copy library = .lbr file |
| COPYLIST |
List copyfiles |
| COPYLISTCOMMENT |
Specifies the type of comment to be used on
COPY statements in .lst files when the COPYLIST directive is specified. |
| CSI |
Reserved. |
| CURRENCY-SIGN |
Currency sign |
| CURRENT-DATE |
DDMMYY or MMDDYY |
| DATA |
Control loading of Data Division |
| DATA-CONTEXT |
Maintain the integrity of the program's
Data Division between CICS link levels |
| DATACOMPRESS |
Data compression |
| DATAMAP |
Cause the Compiler to output information on
data items |
| DATE |
Date for listings |
| DB2 |
Replace EXEC SQL code by DB2 Universal
Database API calls |
| DBCHECK |
Check for DBCS |
| DBCS |
DBCS Support |
| DBCSSOSI |
Shift-in, shift-out |
| DBSPACE |
DBCS space |
| DE-EDIT |
Numeric-edited behavior |
| DEFAULTBYTE |
Initialize Working-Storage Section |
| DEFAULTCALLS |
CALL convention |
| DETECT-LOCK |
Detect record locks |
| DG |
Data General Interactive COBOL
compatibility |
| DIALECT |
Enable check-time and run-time behavior
consistent with the specified dialect |
| DIRECTIVES |
File of directives |
| DIRECTIVES-IN-COMMENTS |
Enable directives in comment lines |
| DOSVS |
IBM DOS/VS COBOL |
| DPC-IN-SUBSCRIPT |
Turns on or off DECIMAL-POINT-IS-COMMA |
| DYNAM |
Obey CANCEL statements |
| ECHO |
Display errors |
| ECHOALL |
Display full listing |
| EDITOR |
Error messages in editor format |
| ENSUITE |
Reserved |
| ERRFORMAT |
Specify the type of error message format |
| ERRLIST |
Print error messages |
| ERRQ |
Pause on error |
| FASTCALL |
Control the behavior of a called
program |
| FASTLINK |
Restrict parameters |
| FASTSORT |
Reserved |
| FAULTFIND |
Enable file input and output to be logged
by FaultFinder |
| FCD3 |
Reserved |
| FCDREG |
Registers for files |
| FDCLEAR |
Clear record buffer after write |
| FILESHARE |
Default locking |
| FILETYPE |
Data file format |
| FIXOPT |
Control placing of control areas |
| FLAG |
Flag outside the dialect |
| FLAGAS |
Show flags as errors |
| FLAGCD |
Flag conflicts |
| FLAGEUC |
Flag occurences of SBCS (8bit codes) and
certain occurances of DBCS (16bit codes) in the source code |
| FLAGMIG |
Flag syntax that behaves differently at run
time depending on the setting of CMPR2 |
| FLAGQ |
Stop compile on error message |
| FLAGSINEDIT |
Flags in error file |
| FLAGSTD |
Flag above ANSI'85 level |
| FOLD-CALL-NAME |
Fold call-name |
| FOLD-COPY-NAME |
Fold copyfile-names |
| FORM |
Page length |
| FP-ROUNDING |
Floating-point items |
| HIDE-MESSAGE |
Set message to hide |
| HOST-NUMCOMPARE |
IBM numeric comparisons |
| HOST-NUMMOVE |
IBM numeric MOVE statements |
| HOSTARITHMETIC |
Truncate arithmetic results on size
error |
| HOSTFD |
Allocate record areas associated with a
file at OPEN time |
| HOSTSIGNS |
Illegal sign nibbles |
| IBM-MS |
IBM / Microsoft COBOL V1.0 |
| IBMCOMP |
Word-storage mode |
| IDXFORMAT |
Indexed file structure |
| IDYSRCPATH |
Control the paths stored in
.idy files for main source files |
| ILASSEMBLY |
Specifies the output assembly file |
| ILCOMPANY |
Sets the Company assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILCOPYRIGHT |
Sets the Copyright assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILCULTURE |
Sets the Culture assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILDELAYSIGN |
Sets the DelaySign assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILDESCRIPTION |
Sets the Description assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILDOC |
Generates documentation in xml format using
comments in the code, and puts the documentation in the specified file. |
| ILDYNCALL |
Resolves calls dynamically at run time |
| ILFILEVERSION |
Instructs the compiler to use a specific
version number for the Win32 file version. |
| ILGEN |
Generates the IL for a program or
library |
| ILICON |
Adds the specified icon to the output
program |
| ILKEYFILE |
Sets the KeyFile assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILKEYNAME |
Sets the KeyName assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILMAIN |
Specifies the entry method for an
assembly |
| ILMANIFEST |
Selects a manifest generation option for
Windows Vista under User Account Control (UAC) |
| ILNAMESPACE |
Specifies the namespace of all
programs/classes being compiled |
| ILNATIVE |
Exposes COBOL data items as native .NET
types |
| ILNATIVERESOURCE |
The specified resource will be included in
the output file |
| ILOUTPUT |
The filename of the output assembly
file |
| ILPINVOKE |
Makes the specified unmanaged code
available |
| ILPRODUCT |
Sets the Product assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILPRODUCTVERSION |
Instructs the compiler to use a specific
version number for the Win32 product file version. |
| ILREF |
Makes the framework classes in the
specified assembly available |
| ILRESOURCE |
Specifies a resources file to embed in the
generated assembly |
| ILSOURCE |
Specifies additional source file to be
compiled into the assembly |
| ILSTATIC |
Exposes entry points as static methods for
backward compatibility |
| ILSUBSYSTEM |
Specifies the subsystem directive to
ILASM |
| ILTARGET |
Specifies the target CPU type |
| ILTITLE |
Sets the Title assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILTRADEMARK |
Sets the Trademark assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILVERSION |
Sets the Version assembly manifest
attribute |
| ILUSING |
Specifies the namespace for a class to be
imported |
| IMPLICITSCOPE |
Produces warning messages when scope has
been implicitly ended |
| INDD |
Transform ACCEPTs to READs |
| INFORETURN |
Information message return value |
| INITCALL |
Execute a module |
| INT |
File for intermediate code |
| INTDATE |
Select the starting date for integer format
dates |
| IOCONV |
READ-INTO/WRITE-FROM |
| ISO2002 |
Specifies that words reserved in the
ISO2002 COBOL Standard are to be treated as reserved words, and changes the
behavior of certain features to be compatible with that standard. |
| IXNLSKEY |
Specifies how the File Handler should sort
index file keys |
| IXNUMKEY |
Enables true numeric sorting on index
keys |
| JAPANESE |
Double-byte extensions |
| KEEP-INT |
Keep .int files |
| KEYCHECK |
Check the number of keys when a file is
opened. |
| KEYCOMPRESS |
Key compression |
| LIBRARIAN |
Allow -INC |
| LINE-COUNT |
Controls detail of information at end of
listing |
| LINKCHECK |
Check Linkage Section items |
| LIST |
File for source listing |
| LISTPATH |
Specify the list-file path |
| LISTWIDTH |
Page width |
| LITLINK |
Literals public |
| LITVAL-SIZE |
BY VALUE size |
| LNKALIGN |
Assume linkage aligned |
| LOCALCOUNT |
Reserved |
| LOCKTYPE |
Read locked records |
| MAKESYN |
Make synonymous |
| MAPNAME |
IBM program-names |
| MAX-ERROR |
Limit number of Compiler errors |
| MF |
Level of Micro Focus COBOL |
| MFCOMMENT |
Alternate-format comments |
| MFSYNC |
Synchronizes items based on their size |
| MOVE-LEN-CHECK |
Check source and target lengths for
alphanumeric MOVE operations |
| MS |
Compatibility with Microsoft COBOL |
| MVS |
IBM COBOL for MVS |
| NATIVE |
Collating sequence |
| NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT |
IBM hexadecimal format floating point |
| NCHAR |
Double-byte extensions |
| NLS |
National Locale Support |
| NSYMBOL |
Identify the meaning of the N symbol in
picture clauses and literals |
| OBJ |
File for object code |
| ODOOSVS |
OSVS-style OCCURS DEPENDING ON |
| ODOSLIDE |
Variable length table |
| OLDBLANKLINE |
BLANK LINE |
| OLDCOPY |
ANSI'68 standard COPY
statements |
| OLDINDEX |
Indexes = subscripts |
| OLDNEXTSENTENCE |
NEXT SENTENCE |
| OLDREADINTO |
READ INTO |
| OLDSTRMIX |
PIC X and PIC N specified in same
statement |
| OMF |
.obj |
| OOCRTL |
Change language options when compiling OO
COBOL classes |
| OPT |
Optimization level
|
| OPTIONAL-FILE |
All files optional |
| OS390 |
IBM COBOL for OS/390 |
| OSEXT |
Source filename extension |
| OSVS |
IBM OS/VS COBOL |
| OUTDD |
Transform DISPLAYs to WRITEs |
| OVERRIDE |
Change meaning |
| PANVALET |
Allow ++INCLUDE |
| PARAMCOUNTCHECK |
Omit parameters |
| PC1 |
IBM / Microsoft COBOL V1.0 |
| PCOMP |
Specify a user program to use as a
precompiler |
| PERFORM-TYPE |
Specify behavior of return jumps from
nested PERFORM statements |
| PERFORMOPT |
Optimize PERFORM of empty paragraph |
| PREPLIST |
Preprocess debug list |
| PREPROCESS |
Preprocess source |
| PRESERVECASE |
Retain case of item names |
| PRINT |
File for source listing |
| PRINT-EXT |
Printing extension |
| PROFILE |
Compile for Profiler |
| PROGID-COMMENT |
Allow comments in Program-ID paragraph |
|
Lengths of parameters
can differ between calling and called program. |
| PROTOTYPE |
Enable relaxed or strict call prototype
checking |
| QUAL |
Allow qualification |
| QUALPROC |
Allow qualification |
| QUERY |
Pause if copyfile missing |
| QUOTE |
QUOTE = " |
| RAWLIST |
Static list |
| RDFPATH |
Specifies a location for a repository
file |
| RDW |
Read record length of variable record |
| RECMODE |
File format |
| RECURSECHECK |
Turns on checking for recursion in
generated code. |
| REENTRANT |
Enable multiple threads to enter a
program |
| REF |
Includes the address and line numbers of
data items in the Data Division |
| REFNO |
Show Compiler version number in
listings |
| REMAINDER |
Calculation of remainder in DIVIDE
statements |
| REMOVE |
De-reserve |
| REPORT-LINE |
Report Writer lines |
| REPOSITORY |
Creates a repository file |
| RESEQ |
Generate line numbers |
| RETRYLOCK |
Retry locked record |
| REWRITE-LS |
REWRITE on LINE SEQUENTIAL files |
| RM |
Ryan-McFarland COBOL V2.0
compatibility |
| RTNCODE-SIZE |
RETURN-CODE size |
| RWHARDPAGE |
Set hard page break in Report Writer |
| SAA |
SAA compatibility |
| SCHEDULER |
Optimize object code for Intel
processors |
| SEG |
Allow segmentation |
| SEQCHK |
Check line numbers |
| SEQUENTIAL |
Variants of SEQUENTIAL organization |
| SERIAL |
Restrict the number of threads that can
enter a program |
| SETTING |
Print directives |
| SHARE-OUTDD |
Allow multiple threads to write to the same
SYSOUT or OUTDD file |
| SHOW-DIR |
Print directives files |
| SIGN |
Included signs |
| SIGN-FIXUP |
Emulation of NUMPROC(PFD) and
NUMPROC(NOPFD) |
| SOURCEASM |
Source in assembly listing |
| SOURCEFORMAT |
Enable free format code |
| SOURCETABSTOP |
Sets the number of space characters to
expand tab characters |
| SPZERO |
Space = zero in numerics |
| SQL |
Replace EXEC SQL code by ODBC or OCI
run-time calls |
| SSRANGE |
Run-time checking of subscripts, indexes
and reference modified items |
| STDERR |
Write messages to STDERR |
| STICKY-LINKAGE |
Keep parameters linked |
| STICKY-PERFORM |
PERFORMS on program reentry |
| SUPFF |
No page-headings |
| SWITCH-TYPE |
Make programmable switches behave in the
same way as in the ISO2002 standard |
| SYMBSTART |
Numbering in SYMBOLIC |
| SYSPUNCH |
Length of SYSPUNCH records |
| TERMPAGE |
Pad out report page |
| TESTCOVER |
Run programs in test coverage mode |
| TIME |
Put time on listings |
| TRACE |
Enable READY TRACE and RESET TRACE |
| TRICKLE |
Restrict PERFORM |
| TRUNC |
Truncate data items |
| TRUNCALLNAME |
Truncate call names |
| TRUNCCOPY |
Truncate copybook names |
| TRUNCINC |
Truncate ++INCLUDE filenames |
| UNICODE |
Specify the encoding to be used for Unicode
characters |
| USE |
File of directives |
| VERBOSE |
Compiler messages |
| VSC2 |
VSC2 COBOL |
| WARNING |
Level of message to output |
| WB |
Reserved |
| WB2 |
Reserved |
| WB3 |
Reserved |
| WEBSERVER |
Sets the protocol to use between a COBOL
program and a Web server |
| WRITELOCK |
Default locking |
| WRITETHROUGH |
* Unbuffered writes |
| XOPEN |
X/Open |
| XREF |
Produce cross-ref listing |
| ZEROLENGTHFALSE |
Zero length tests |
| ZEROSEQ |
Zeros in line numbers |
| ZWB |
Numeric comparisons |