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HP SYSTEM DICTIONARY XL COBOL DEFINITION EXTRACTOR Reference Manual

Chapter 4  Source Generation 

Overview 

You can request COBOL source generation by specifying the GENERATE
command.  When you specify this command, SDCDE verifies that the given
entity exists for the given entity type and then prompts you for
additional information before starting the source generation process.

Each entity type requires different information for the source generation
process.  The following sections describe the prompts that SDCDE issues
for the valid entity types.

Suppose we have entities ELEMENT-1, ELEMENT-2, ...  ELEMENT-N that are
related as follows:

          ELEMENT-1 contains ELEMENT-2
          ELEMENT-2 contains ELEMENT-3
          ELEMENT-3 contains ELEMENT-4
                       .
                       .
                       .
          ELEMENT-N-1 contains ELEMENT-N

When COBOL source generation completes for ELEMENT-1, the COBOL record
looks like the following:

        01 ELEMENT-1
           05 ELEMENT-2
              10 ELEMENT-3
                 15  ELEMENT-4
                         .
                         .
                         .
                     40  ELEMENT-N-1
                         45  ELEMENT-N

For each iteration of the contains relationship, the level number
increases by 5.

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