SCB-1004-00-F Improper loc for END DECLARATIVES stm The word END was encountered as the first COBOL word in a statement in the Procedure Division and no corresponding Declaratives
Header was previously encountered. This END is presumed to be a part of End Declaratives statement. Execution stops.
SCB-1006-00-F Stm overflow Number of statements in the paragraph exceeds the internal table of 600 (after processing, each resulting S-COBOL line
is counted as a statement).
SCB-2002-00-E Continuation improper Continuation is not allowed in Section or Division header. A continuation ellipses was coded in a Section or Division header.
SCB-2006-00-E Error in paragraph name A character other than a left parenthesis or a period was encountered following a COBOL word that begins in AREA-A of the
Procedure Division.
SCB-2012-00-E Para-name must follow ENTER in area-A ENTER COBOL/ENTER SCOBOL in area-A was followed by a paragraph of code that did not start with a paragraph name. When the
ENTER COBOL statement starts in AREA-A, the current S-COBOL paragraph is closed to further processing/code generation.
SCB-2018-00-E ELSE must stand alone on line The only code that can follow an ELSE statement on the same line is a comment beginning with /* . A missing hyphen in
an ELSE-IF construction also causes this message.
SCB-2025-00-E Improper indentation decreased All the indentation within one statement block must be the same. If one statement in a statement block begins one column or
more earlier or later, this message results. For further processing, the line indentation decreases to the level of current
indentation.
SCB-2052-00-E Argument return impossible A literal or arithmetic expression must correspond to an argument preceded by a plus sign (+). You cannot copy back into
a literal or arithmetic expression.
SCB-2053-00-E Improper use of concatenation operator A concatenation operator, &&, tried to continue a line that does not end with a non-numeric literal. Use && only when
concatenating a non-numeric literal onto a continued line.
SCB-3002-00-W ON SIZE ERROR required assumed An indented statement or an ELSE-IF/ELSE statement followed an arithmetic statement. This is valid only with an ON SIZE
ERROR clause.