Level II COBOL Operating Guide Version 2.0 Feb84

HIGH PERFORMANCE LEVEL II COBOL™ OPERATING GUIDE Version 2.0 HIGH PERFORMANCE LEVEL II COBOL™ Operating Guide (For use with the UNIX™ Operating System) Version 2.0 Micro Focus Ltd Issue 1 February 1984 i COBOL is an industry language and is not the property of any company or group of companies, or of any organization or group of organizations. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by any contributor or by the CODASYL Programming Language Committee as to the accuracy and functioning of the programming system and language. Moreover, no responsibility is assumed by any contributor, or by the committee, in connection herewith. The authors and copyright holders of the copyrighted material used herein: FLOW-MATIC (Trademark for Sperry Rand Corporation) Programming for the Univac I and II, Data Automation Systems copyrighted 1958, 1959, by Sperry Rand Corporation; IBM Commercial Translator Form No. F28-8013, copyrighted 1959 by IBM; FACT, DS 127 AS260-2760, copyrighted 1960 by Minneapolis-Honeywell. have specifically authorized the use of this material in whole or in part, in the COBOL specifications. Such authorization extends to the reproduction and use of COBOL specifications in programming manuals or similar publications. Micro Focus has made every effort to ensure that this manual is correct and accurate, but reserves the right to make changes without notice at its sole discretion at any time. The software described ,in this document is supplied under a license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license, and in particular any warranty of fitness of Micro Focus software products for any particular purpose is expressly excluded and in no event will Micro Focus be liable for any consequential loss. Note that the following are registered trademarks: LEVEL II COBOL™ (LEVEL II COBOL), FORMS-2™ (FORMS-2), (ANIMATOR) are trademarks of 'Micro Focus. UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. DEC is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. ADM-3A is a trademark of Lear Siegler, Inc. DPPX is a trademark of the IBM Corporation. IBM is a trademark of the IBM Corporation. ~COPYRIGHT 1984 by Micro Focus Ltd. ii and Ai\JIMATOR™ LEVEL II COBOL OPERATING GUIDE VERSION 2.0 AMENDMENT RECORD Amendment Number Dated Inserted by ~ iii Signature Date PREFACE This manual describes operating procedures for the UNIX resident releases of the LEVEL II COBOL Version 2.0 compiler and Run-Time System (RTS). The compiler converts LEVEL II COBOL source code into an intermediate code. This intermediate code can then be interpreted by the Run-Time System. Alternatively, the intermediate code can be converted by the native code generator into the machine code for your processor. This native code can then be run under the control of the Run-Time System. This manual describes the steps needed to compile a program, generate native code, and execute the intermediate or native code, including all necessary linkage and run-time r…