C O B O L
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 THE ICL COBOL COMPILER HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO EMAS TOGETHER
WITH A SUBSET OF THE RUN TIME SUPPORT. ONLY EMAS DATA FILES CAN
BE PROCESSED IN THIS FIRST VERSION AND ONLY SEQUENTIAL ACCESS IS
AVAILABLE. THE SORTING FACILITIES ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
   THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS ARE USED
   COBOL   COBRUN   COBDEFINE  AND COBJSVAR

  THE FOLLWING DIRECTIVES SHOULD BE ISSUED
    EXTENDSESSIONDIRECTORY(1500,5000)
     OPTION(SEARCHDIR=ERCS10.COBDIR)

COBOL
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  THIS IS USED TO COMPILE A PROGRAM. THE SIMPLEST FORM IS
     COBOL(SOURCEFILE,OBJECTFILE)

  ADDITIONAL PARAMETERS ARE AVAILABLE AND MAY BE SPECIFIED
BY KEYWORD OR POSITION AS IN THE COBOLCOMPILE MACRO DETAILED IN
  "DEVELOPING COBOL PROGRAMS USING THE C2 COMPILER" TP6866.
  ONLY THE PARAMETERS RELEVANT TO THE COMPILATUON PHASE HAVE
ANY SIGNIFICANCE AT PRESENT.
 E. G. COBOL(INPUT=COBPROG,OMF=COBPROGY,LISTINGS=NOSOURCE,SAV=LFILE)

THE PROGRAM IS COMPILED TO OMF FORMAT CONVERTED TO EMAS OBJECT FORMAT
AND THEN LINKED WITH THE COBOLRUN TIME LIBRARY.

COBDEFINE
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THIS IS USED TO ASSOCIATE FILES WITH THE LOCALNAME USED INTERNALLY
IN THE COBOL PROGRAM. PARAMETERS MAY BE SPECIFIED BY KEYWORD OR
POSITION. IN THE SIMPLEST FORMS IT IS COMPARABLE TO THE EMAS
DEFINE COMMAND.
   E.G.  COBDEFINE(SYSIN,INPUTDATA)

WILL ASSOCIATE FILE INPUTDATA WITH LOCAL NAME SYSIN.

THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS ARE PROVIDED

LNAME=LOCAL NAME
NAME=FILE NAME
SIZE=SIZE IN K BYTES FOR NEW FILE
RECFM=RECORD FORMAT (AS IN DEFINE E.G.V2048)
ACCESS=ACCESS REQUIRED (R OR W) DEFAULT IS R.
ORG=FILE ORGANISATION
KPOS=KEYPOSITION
KLEN=KEYLENGTH

E.G.   COBDEFINE SYSOUT,PRINTFILE,SIZE=500,ACC=W

COBJSVAR
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THIS IS PROVIDED TO ALLOW THE DEFINITION OF JOB
SPACE VARIABLES. INTEGER OR STRING VARIABLES MAY BE DEFINED
 THE FORMAT IS COBJSVAR(VARABLENAME,VALUE)

THE MODE OF THE VARABLE WILL BE DEDUCED FROM THE VALUE. STRING VALUES
MUST BE ENCLOSED IN QUOTES. THE , MAY BE REPLACED BY =.

E.G.       COBJSVAR(SYSFILEDEFN="FREDSFILE")

COBRUN
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  THIS COMMAND IS USED TO EXECUTE A COBOL PROGRAM. ONLY ONE
PARAMETER IS REQUIRED THE NAME OF THE OBJECT FILE.

    E.G.    COBRUN(COBOBJ)

COBCONV
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   THIS CAN BE USED TO CONVERT CHARACTER FILES TO DATA FILES.

COBCONV(CHARFILE,DATAFILE)

EXAMPLE OF RUN
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EDIT SOURCE TO FILE COBSOURCE
EDIT INPUT DATA FILE TO A FILE CDATA
CONVERT CDATA TO A DATAFILE DDATA
            COBCONV(CDATA,DDATA)
COMPILE PROGRAM
            COBOL(COBSOURCE,COBOBJ)
DEFINE INPUT AND LISTING FILE
            COBDEFINE(SYSIN,DDATA)
            COBDEFINE(SYSOUT,PRINTFILE,ACC=W)
RUN OBJECT PROGRAM
            COBRUN(COBOBJ)
LIST OUTPUT FILE
            LIST(PRINTFILE,.LP)