COBOL PDF
Program Development Facility
PDF stands for Program Development Facility. It is a software development tool that helps you to produce structured programs. You can draw and edit the data and program structures, add operations and conditions, and it will automatically generate the procedure division of a COBOL program. It will also output paginated structures to print.
Structured diagrams are created, edited and saved using PDF on a PC. The name of a file for editing can be supplied through the command line when invoking an image, or, if omitted, by entering it at the command prompt on the initial screen. A default extension of .pdf is added to the name provided.
Secondary Commands
Commands
| CODE | |
| CUT | CUT SUBTREE copies the current component and its subtree, ready to paste using the PASTE sSUBTREE command or the PASTE secondary command, without deleting it. |
| EXIT | |
| FIND | |
| GET | |
| HELP | |
| PAGE | Used to set the page length for printing purposes. |
| PASTE | Pastes the portion of the structure copied by the CUT SUBTREE command. |
| QUIT | |
| SAVE | |
| SHOW | |
| TEXT | Generates a paged structure text ready for spooling to the host system line-printer. The file contains the structure, followed by header, operations and conditions if any. Unused operations are flagged with a * after the operation number. The command syntax is TEXT FILESPEC where FILESPEC identifies the file to which the text will be written, by default a *TXT file. Use CTRL-BREAK to cancel a TEXT command without terminating PDF. |
The FILESPEC parameter is used by CODE, CUT, EXIT, GET, PASTE, PRINT, SAVE and TEXT.
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| CENTRE | |
| DOWN | |
| HELP | |
| LEFT | |
| PAGE | |
| RIGHT | |
| UP |
All can be abbreviated if unambiguous, except quit.
Qualifiers
under construction