Appendix B: List of New Reserved Words

The following list shows the new reserved words used in the COBOL-IT Report Writer syntax. Except for SUPPRESS PRINTING which is in the 1974 and 1985 ANS standards, these words are new to all three standards. However, with the exception of DATA-SUB-1/2/3/4, LINE-LIMIT, REPORT-NUMBER, and REPEATED-COUNTER they are locally reserved only when the OSVS option is in effect. This means in general that the user may use these names as data-names, file names, etc. provided that, if they are used in the REPORT SECTION, it is only with care to avoid ambiguity. For example, SOURCE IS COLS and SOURCE IS STEP are permitted, but the multiple form SOURCES ARE STEP, COLS would not be correctly parsed. SOURCE IS BUFFER, DUPLICATED would be permitted as these keywords normally appear only in the SELECT clause.

Keyword	References
Absent	PRESENT/ABSENT WHEN Clause
BATCH	MODE Clause
BODY	FIRST/LAST DETAIL, NEXT GROUP Clause)
BUFFER	PAGE BUFFER Clause
CENTER, CENTRE	COLUMN Clause
CODE-VALUE	CODE Clause
COL	COLUMN Clause
COLS	COLUMN Clause
COLUMNS	COLUMN Clause
DATA-SUB-1/2/3/4	OCCURS Clause
DEFAULT	PRESENT / ABSENT WHEN Clause
DEPTH	OCCURS Clause
DUPLICATED	DUPLICATED Clause
FUNC	FUNCTION Clause
FUNCTION	FUNCTION Clause
HOLD	SET Statement
LINE-LIMIT	LINE LIMIT Clause
NEW	PRESENT AFTER Clause
NONE	SOURCE Clause
NUMBERS	COLUMN Clause, LINE Clause)
PRESENT	PRESENT AFTER Clause, PRESENT WHEN Clause
PRINTING	SUPPRESS PRINTING Statement
REPEATED	REPEATED Clause
REPEATED-COUNTER	REPEATED Clause
REPLACE	OVERFLOW Clause
REPORT-NUMBER	DUPLICATED Clause
SOURCES	SOURCE Clause
STEP	OCCURS Clause)
SUPPRESS	SUPPRESS PRINTING Statement
UNLESS	PRESENT WHEN Clause
WIDTH	OCCURS Clause and REPEATED Clause
WRAP	WRAP Clause

Words beginning with the prefix R - - (note the double hyphen) must also be avoided because the precompiler uses this prefix for its own generated data and procedure names.