Breakpoint Activities › Indirect Command Syntax › For COBOL II (Releases 1.3 and higher)

For COBOL II (Releases 1.3 and higher)

• One program‑ID qualifier is allowed.

  Note: If your COBOL II source listing contains a nested program that has a local variable with a name identical to a variable in the main program, use the appropriate program‑ID to indicate which variable you are referencing.

• One group‑item qualifier is allowed. It can be any group containing the item in question:
  • Immediate parent
  • 01‑level
  • Any level in between the immediate parent and the 01‑level
• Up to seven levels of subscripting are allowed. Subscripts include:
  • Positive integer numeric literal
  • Another variable defined as a positive integer numeric field (no sign or decimal portion)
  • INDEX item (either INDEXED BY or USAGE INDEX)

Example

DATE OF INVOICE
TABLE‑ENTRY(4,TABLE‑INDEX)