Questionable Errors [ HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation
HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual
Questionable Errors
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100 ERROR ILLEGAL INTEGER.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A non-integer literal or an integer which is too large has occurred
in a context where the compiler expects an integer.
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101 ERROR ALPHABET-NAME IN CODE-SET CLAUSE MAY NOT SPECIFY LITERAL PHRASE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE An alphabet-name which was defined using the literal phrase has
been used in a code set clause.
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102 ERROR DATA-NAME ! IS NOT AN ALPHABET-NAME OR CLASS-NAME.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The data-name must be declared to be alphabet-name or class-name.
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103 ERROR ALPHABET-NAME OR CLASS-NAME ! IS NOT DECLARED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The data name must be declared to be alphabet-name or class-name.
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104 ERROR NULL LITERAL NOT ALLOWED; REPLACED BY SPACE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A nonnumeric literal was found which did not contain any characters
between the opening and closing quotation marks. It was replaced
with a one-character literal consisting of the space character.
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105 ERROR NUMBER OF SYMBOLIC CHARS ! INTEGERS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The number of symbolic characters must equal the # of integers.
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106 ERROR CLAUSES IN SPECIAL-NAMES OUT OF ORDER.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The clauses in SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph must be in order: mnemonic,
alphabet, symbolic character, class, currency and decimal-point.
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107 ERROR ILLEGAL CONFIGURATION SECTION.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Nested programs must not contain a CONFIGURATION SECTION.
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108 ERROR ERROR ! GETTING NLS INFORMATION.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Language not installed or system variable not set.[REV END]
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109 ERROR BAD RECORDING MODE SPECIFICATION!.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The RECORDING MODE specification must be "F", "V", "U", or "S".
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112 ERROR NEGATIVE NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES SPECIFIED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A table may not contain a negative number of occurrences.
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113 ERROR MINIMUM NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES IS GREATER THAN MAXIMUM NUMBER OF
MESSAGE OCCURRENCES.
CAUSE The minimum number of occurrences in a table must be greater than
the maximum number of occurrences of the table.
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121 ERROR MORE THAN {500/123} PAIRS IN A VALUE CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Level 88 value clauses can have at most 500 pairs on HP COBOL II/XL
and 123 pairs on HP COBOL II/V.
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122 ERROR MORE THAN 18 DIGITS IN A NUMERIC PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Numeric data items have at most 18 digits.
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123 ERROR MULTIPLE OCCURRENCES OF !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE For data items, only one BLANK WHEN ZERO, JUSTIFIED, OCCURS,
PICTURE, SYNCHRONIZED, USAGE, SIGN, or VALUE clause may appear.
For file descriptions, only one BLOCK CONTAINS, DATA RECORDS, LABEL
RECORDS, RECORD CONTAINS, RECORDING MODE, REPORT, VALUE OF,
LINKAGE, or CODE-SET clause may appear. For the VALUE OF clause,
only one VOL, LABELS, SEQ, or EXDATE phrase may appear. For the
LINKAGE clause, only one FOOTING, TOP, or BOTTOM phrase may appear.
For a CD only one of each INPUT or OUTPUT clause may appear.
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124 ERROR OCCURS DEPENDING ON ITEM FOLLOWED BY !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The OCCURS DEPENDING ON item must be the last item in a record.
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125 ERROR ILLEGAL EXTERNAL CLAUSE. (!)
MESSAGE
CAUSE External clause must be on a FD or 01 in working storage section.
The name must be unique. (See error 351). The item must be
contain a redefines or renames clause. For files, it must not have
the same area or multiple file clause. Redefining a 01 external
item can't be larger. (See warning 52.)
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126 ERROR ILLEGAL GLOBAL CLAUSE. (!)
MESSAGE
CAUSE Global clause must be a FD or on a 01 not in linkage section. The
name must be unique and can't be FILLER. For files, it must not
have the same record area clause. A GLOBAL USE procedure is not
allowed on a local file.[REV BEG] A GLOBAL and a local USE
procedure declared in the same scope may not reference the same
file or io-mode.[REV END]
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132 ERROR 88 LEVEL ON GROUP ITEM ! CONTAINING NON-DISPLAY USAGE, JUST, OR
MESSAGE SYNC
CAUSE A condition-name cannot be associated with a group containing items
whose descriptions include JUSTIFIED, SYNCHRONIZED, or USAGE other
than DISPLAY. The compiler treats the group as though there were no
USAGE, JUSTIFIED, or SYNCHRONIZED clause.
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133 ERROR ! CLAUSE MAY NOT BE SPECIFIED IN 88 LEVEL ENTRIES.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A BLANK WHEN ZERO, JUSTIFIED, OCCURS, PICTURE, SYNCHRONIZED, USAGE,
or SIGN clause has been specified for a condition-name.
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140 ERROR MULTIPLE SIGN DESIGNATORS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE "+", "-", "S", "CR", and "DB" are mutually exclusive in a picture
string.
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141 ERROR C NOT FOLLOWED BY R IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE "C" must be immediately followed by a "R" in a picture string.
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142 ERROR D NOT FOLLOWED BY B IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE "D" must be immediately followed by a "B" in a picture string.
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143 ERROR MULTIPLE POINT CHARACTERS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The decimal point location may be specified at most once in a
picture string.
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144 ERROR MULTIPLE FLOAT CHARACTERS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Either "*" or "Z" has been encountered in a picture string and some
other character has already been determined to be the floating
insertion character ("*", "Z", "+" used as floating insertion
character, "-" used as floating insertion character, and currency
sign used as floating insertion character, are mutually in a
picture string).
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145 ERROR MULTIPLE REPETITION FACTORS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE "(" immediately follows ")" in a picture string.
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146 ERROR MISSING ")" IN PICTURE REPETITION FACTOR.
MESSAGE
CAUSE "(" has occurred in a picture string without a following ")".
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147 ERROR ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN PICTURE REPETITION FACTOR.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Only numeric digits ("0" - "9") may occur between "(" and ")" in a
picture string.
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148 ERROR REPETITION FACTOR WITH NO CHARACTER TO REPEAT IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A picture string may not begin with the character "(".
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149 ERROR REPETITION FACTOR IN PICTURE MAY NOT BE ZERO.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The number between a "(" and a ")" in a picture string may not be
zero.
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150 ERROR ILLEGAL REPETITION FACTOR IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A repetition factor greater than one follows a character that may
not occur more than once in a picture string. Or the repetition
factor is too big, that is, more than 1G bytes on HP COBOL II/XL or
64K bytes on HP COBOL II/V.
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151 ERROR ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Only the characters "B", "0", "/", ",", ".", "+", "-", "C", "R",
(following a "C"), "D", "B" (following a "D"), the currency sign
character, "Z", "*", "9", "A", "X", "S", "V", "P", "(", numeric
digits following a "(", and ")" following the numeric digits
following a "(" may occur in a picture string.
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152 ERROR MULTIPLE NON-FLOATING CURRENCY SIGNS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE More than one currency sign character has occurred in a picture
string and some other character has been determined to be the float
character.
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153 ERROR NO DIGIT OR CHARACTER POSITIONS IN PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE At least one of the characters "A", "X", "Z", "9", or "*" or at
least two of the characters "+", "-", or the currency symbol must
occur in a picture string.
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154 ERROR ILLEGAL COMBINATION OF PICTURE CHARACTERS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Certain combination of characters may not occur in a picture
string.
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155 ERROR ILLEGAL SEQUENCE OF PICTURE CHARACTERS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Certain sequences of characters may not occur in a picture string.
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156 ERROR 66-LEVEL ENTRY HAS NO RENAMES CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE 66-level data items must have a renames clause.
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157 ERROR 88-LEVEL ENTRY HAS NO VALUE CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A value clause must be specified for every condition-name.
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158 ERROR ELEMENTARY ITEM HAS NO PICTURE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A 77-level or 49-level item is not usage index and has no picture
clause or an empty group description exists.
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159 ERROR IMPROPER LEVEL NUMBER.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The cause is one of the following:
1. A level number is not 66, 77, 88, or between 01 and 49.
2. A level number is immediately subordinate to a level whose
subordinates are not equal to it. For example, in the
following, the level 04 is improper:
03...
05...
....
05...
....
04
3. A level 77 is in the file section.
4. A level 88 is subordinate to an index item.
5. The first level number in a section is not 01 or 77.
6. The first level number subordinate to an FD or SD is not 01.
7. A level 88 is subordinate to a 66 level item.
8. A level 66 is subordinate to a 77 level item.
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160 ERROR ILLEGAL CLAUSE FOR 66-LEVEL ENTRY.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The only clause which may be specified for a 66-level entry is the
RENAMES clause.
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161 ERROR ILLEGAL REDEFINES CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The item being redefined is not declared immediately subordinate to
the item containing the redefines clause, or the item being
redefined is a table or variable size item or, the item being
redefined is a 66-level or 88-level item.
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162 ERROR PICTURE CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN 66 AND 88 LEVEL ENTRIES.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A picture clause has occurred in a 66-level or 88-level entry.
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163 ERROR USAGE CLAUSE CONFLICTS WITH GROUP USAGE CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The usage clause of an item must specify the same usage as any
usage in any group containing it.
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164 ERROR SIGN CLAUSE CONFLICTS WITH GROUP SIGN CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The sign clause may not be specified for any item whose group
contains a sign clause. ANSI74 entry point only.
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165 ERROR SIGN CLAUSE CONFLICTS WITH USAGE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The sign clause may only be specified for items whose usage is
display.
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166 ERROR ! CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN INDEX ITEMS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The JUSTIFIED, PICTURE, VALUE or BLANK WHEN ZERO clauses may not be
specified for items whose usage is index.
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167 ERROR REDEFINING ITEM ! DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW REDEFINED ITEM.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Between an item containing a redefined clause and the item it
redefines there must be any entries which define new character
positions.
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168 ERROR ! CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN POINTER ITEMS
MESSAGE
CAUSE The JUSTIFIED, PICTURE, SIGN, or BLANK WHEN ZERO clauses may not be
specified for items whose usage is pointer.[REV END]
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170 ERROR ILLEGAL RENAMES CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A RENAMES clause may only be specified in a 66-level item. The
item(s) it renames must be defined in the immediately preceding
record and must be special level (66,77,88) items, table items,
table elements, or variable size items. If the THRU phrase is
used, the names must specify different items, the beginning of the
second item may not be before the beginning of the first item, and
the end of the second item be after the end of the first item.
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172 ERROR JUSTIFIED CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN DATA ITEMS WHICH ARE NOT EITHER
MESSAGE ALPHABETIC OR ALPHANUMERIC.
CAUSE The justified clause may only be specified for alphabetic and
alphanumeric items.
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173 ERROR BLANK WHEN ZERO CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL FOR THIS ITEM.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The blank when zero clause is legal only for items whose picture is
numeric or numeric edited and does not contain a "*".
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174 ERROR BLANK WHEN ZERO CLAUSE IS REDUNDANT FOR THIS ITEM.
MESSAGE
CAUSE If all of the numeric character positions of a numeric edited item
are represented by "Z" then the item is implicitly BLANK WHEN ZERO.
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175 ERROR EDIT PROGRAM FOR THIS PICTURE IS TOO BIG.
MESSAGE
CAUSE If a picture is excessively complicated, it can generate an edit
program which will be too long to fit into a data table entry.
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176 ERROR OCCURS CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN 77-LEVEL ITEMS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The occurs clause may not be specified in 77 level items.
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177 ERROR ILLEGAL PICTURE FOR NON-DISPLAY USAGE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE If the usage of an item is comp, binary, packed-decimal, or comp-3
then the picture must be numeric.
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178 ERROR ! CLAUSE IS ILLEGAL IN GROUP ITEMS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The BLANK WHEN ZERO, JUSTIFIED or SYNCHRONIZED clauses may only be
specified for elementary items.
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183 ERROR ILLEGAL SIGN IN LITERAL.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A numeric literal in a value clause may not contain a sign if the
corresponding data item is an unsigned numeric data item.
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184 ERROR ILLEGAL LITERAL.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A literal has occurred in a value clause and either the
corresponding data item is an index item, the corresponding data
item is numeric and the literal is nonnumeric, or the corresponding
data item is nonnumeric and the literal is numeric.
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185 ERROR MULTIPLE INITIAL VALUES FOR A DATA ITEM.
MESSAGE
CAUSE When the value clause is used to specify an initial value for a
data item it may only specify one value. VALUE clause must not be
specified on a group and also a subordinate item.
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186 ERROR !! FOR !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE This error message is for illegal or missing forward references.
The insertions are for the forward reference type, the name of the
forward reference, and the name of the file or table containing the
forward reference. The forward reference types are table keys,
alternate keys, depending on identifiers, file status identifiers,
volume identifiers, labels identifiers, seq identifiers, exdate
identifiers, linage identifiers, footing identifiers, top
identifiers, bottom identifiers, padding character identifiers and
record varying identifiers. Illegal forward references could occur
because the key or identifier is in the wrong section or has wrong
usage or size. This error could also occur because it has the
wrong scope, that is, external files must have external linage or
padding characters, depending on identifiers must have global or
external the same as the table and be in the same DATA DIVISION.
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188 ERROR LITERAL REQUIRES TRUNCATION OF NON-ZERO DIGITS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A numeric literal in a value clause specified a value outside the
range of values possible for the associated data item.
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189 ERROR LITERAL TOO LONG, TRUNCATED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE A nonnumeric literal in a value clause is longer than the
associated data item.
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200 ERROR MULTIPLE OCCURRENCES OF FD-SD ENTRIES FOR FILENAME.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The same name has been used in more than one FD or SD entry.
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201 ERROR AREA A MUST BE BLANK IN A CONTINUATION RECORD.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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202 ERROR ILLEGAL COBOL CHARACTER IGNORED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Check list of legal COBOL characters.
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205 ERROR RESERVED WORD ! NOT LEGAL IN THIS DIVISION.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The specified word is a Reserved word used in another division.
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206 ERROR PICTURE CHARACTER STRING TOO LONG.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Picture character string is limited to 30 characters.
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207 ERROR ILLEGAL OCTAL DIGIT.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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208 ERROR LITERAL TOO LONG.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Nonnumeric or octal literal must not be longer than data item.
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210 ERROR ILLEGAL DUPLICATION OF CLAUSES IN ! PARAGRAPH.
MESSAGE
CAUSE In SPECIAL-NAMES OR OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph.
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211 ERROR ALPHABET-NAME ! HAS ALREADY BEEN USED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE In program COLLATING SEQUENCE clause.
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212 ERROR ILLEGAL IMPLEMENTOR-NAME !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE An unknown name was used in mnemonic or alphabet clause.
Implementor-names are switch names, function names or alphabet
names. Valid function names are: SYSIN, SYSOUT, CONSOLE, C01-C16,
TOP, or NO SPACE CONTROL. Valid alphabet names are: EBCDIC,
EBCDIK, NATIVE, STANDARD-1 or STANDARD-2. Valid switch names are
SW0 - SW15.
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213 ERROR MNEMONIC-NAME ! HAS ALREADY BEEN USED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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214 ERROR ON-OFF CONDITION DOES NOT REFER TO A SWITCH.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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216 ERROR NONNUMERIC LITERAL IN "!" PHRASE HAS MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER.
MESSAGE
CAUSE The THRU or ALSO phrase in alphabet-name.
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218 ERROR CURRENCY SIGN HAS MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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219 ERROR ILLEGAL SUBSTITUTE CURRENCY SIGN.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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220 ERROR ILLEGAL COMBINATION OF FILE ORGANIZATION AND ACCESS METHODS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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221 ERROR MISSING FILE POSITION NUMBER(S).
MESSAGE
CAUSE Missing file position numbers in MULTIPLE FILE clause.
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222 ERROR DUPLICATE FILE NAME ! IN MULTIPLE FILE TAPE CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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223 ERROR DUPLICATE FILE POSITION IN MULTIPLE FILE TAPE CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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224 ERROR FILE NAME ! NOT DEFINED IN SELECT CLAUSE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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225 ERROR FILE POSITION HAS MORE THAN 4 DIGITS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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226 ERROR FILE POSITION NUMBERS MUST START WITH 1.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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227 ERROR FILE NAME ! IN MORE THAN ONE SAME RECORD AREA.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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228 ERROR FILE NAME ! IN MORE THAN ONE SAME SORT/MERGE AREA.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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229 ERROR FILE NAME ! IN MORE THAN ONE SAME AREA.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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230 ERROR FILE NAME ! HAS ALREADY BEEN USED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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232 ERROR DUPLICATE CHARACTER IN ALPHABET OR CLASS DEFINITION.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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233 ERROR NUMERIC LITERAL IN ALPHABET/CLASS/SYMBOLIC CHARACTER HAS SIGN ,SIGN
MESSAGE DROPPED.
CAUSE
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234 ERROR NUMERIC LITERAL IN ALPHABET/CLASS/SYMBOLIC CHARACTER MUST BE 1 THRU
MESSAGE !.
CAUSE For alphabets and classes the value is 256. For symbolic character
the value depends on the alphabet.
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NOTE The term SYSTEM FILE NAME in ERROR MESSAGES 238 through 252 is the
same as the term FILE-INFO in the manual.
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238 ERROR MISSING COMMA IN SYSTEM FILE NAME.
MESSAGE
CAUSE See FILE-INFO for the ASSIGN clause.
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239 ERROR ILLEGAL FORMAL FILE DESIGNATOR IN SYSTEM FILE NAME.
MESSAGE
CAUSE See FILE-INFO for the ASSIGN clause.
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240 ERROR FIRST CHARACTER OF FORMAL FILE DESIGNATOR MUST BE '$' OR
MESSAGE ALPHABETIC.
CAUSE See MPE restrictions for file name.
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241 ERROR FORMAL FILE DESIGNATOR ! HAS MORE THAN 8 CHARACTER !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE See MPE restrictions for file name.
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242 ERROR ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN FORMAL FILE DESIGNATOR !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE See MPE restrictions for file name.
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243 ERROR ILLEGAL DEVICE CLASS !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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244 ERROR ILLEGAL RECORDING MODE !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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245 ERROR ILLEGAL DEVICE NAME !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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246 ERROR DEVICE CODE MUST CONTAIN 3 DIGITS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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247 ERROR FILE SIZE HAS MORE THAN 9 DIGITS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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249 ERROR FORMS MESSAGE HAS MORE THAN 49 CHARACTERS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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250 ERROR FORMS MESSAGE MUST END WITH A PERIOD.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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251 ERROR ILLEGAL LOCKING PARAMETER !.
MESSAGE
CAUSE 'L' is locking parameter.
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252 ERROR SYSTEM FILE NAME CONTAINS TOO MANY FIELDS.
MESSAGE
CAUSE See FILE-INFO for the ASSIGN clause.
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253 ERROR ILLEGAL COMBINATION OF SAME AREA AND SAME RECORD AREA FILES.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Inconsistent combination of these clauses.
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254 ERROR ILLEGAL COMBINATION OF SAME AREA AND SAME SORT AREA FILES.
MESSAGE
CAUSE Inconsistent combination of these clauses.
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258 ERROR ! NOT IMPLEMENTED.
MESSAGE
CAUSE MULTIPLE REEL/UNIT or REPORT WRITER, COMMUNICATION, or level 2
DEBUG modules or the ENTER statement.
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259 ERROR DEFAULT FILE NAME IS TEMPORARY NAMELESS FILE.
MESSAGE
CAUSE
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