Reporting Facility Rules for Coding

Reporting Facility Rules for Coding

While no coding forms are required, there are rules you must follow to code a Reporting Facility program.

Rules for coding the following are discussed in this chapter:

• Reporting Facility programs
• Character set
• Reserved words
• Predefined field names
• Alphanumeric literals
• Numeric constants
• Hexadecimal literals
• Bit masks
• User-defined field names
• Labels
• File names
• Logical expressions
• Arithmetic expressions
• Call library member names
• Data format
• Data movement and alignment
• Data editing