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HP SYSTEM DICTIONARY XL COBOL DEFINITION EXTRACTOR Reference Manual

Comments Generated 

In SDCDE, you may set the COMMENT option to ON, to document the COBOL
source being generated.  If you do so, the following lines of comments
are always included for all entity types:

  Entity type
  Primary name
  Alias name
  scope-owner attribute value
  scope-changed attribute value
  date-created attribute value
  date-changed attribute value
  description attribute value

The comment line for the alias name is included only if the ALIAS option
is set to something other than NONE. If no description attribute exists
for the entity, none will be included as comments.

A number of additional attributes are included as comments; the table
below shows the entity type and the attributes included in the comments:

ENTITY TYPE      ATTRIBUTES 

IMAGE-DATABASE   None

IMAGE-DATASET    image-dataset-type

FORMSFILE        None

FORM             None

FILE

                      file-type
                      char-type

KSAMFILE         None

RECORD           None

ELEMENT

                      element-type
                      display-length
                      decimal
                      byte-length

Example 

The following example shows the comments generated for the element named
ORD-NO. The comments are inserted prior to the entity's definition.

     000100
     000200* Entity Type        : ELEMENT
     000300* Primary Name       : ORD-NO
     000400* Alias Name         : CUSTOMER-ORDER-NUMBER
     000500* Scope Owner        : DA
     000600* Scope Changed      : DA
     000700* Date Created       : 08/30/85 11:09 PM
     000800* Date Changed       : 08/30/85 11:09 PM
     000900* Element Type       : X
     001000* Display Leng       : 10
     001100* Decimal            : 0
     001200* Byte Leng          : 10
     001300
     001400 01  CUSTOMER-ORDER-NUMBER-ELEM
        .
        .
        .

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