1. Scope and System Time/Date
SCOPE TERMINATORS
For Your Information
FOR THE PROCEDURE DIVISION:
A period will end every “open” logical control structure currently begun… NOT (a “used to be rule”!)
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READ INPUT-FD AT END MOVE “yes” TO EOF
PERFORM 200-CALC UNTIL EOF = “yes”
MOVE INPUT-REC TO OUTPUT-REC
WRITE OUTPUT-REC
RULE OF THUMB:
Always use END-STRUCTURE delimiters and you will only need a period at the end of every paragraph.
Indentation has NOTHING to do with the logic of the program!!!
Definition:
Delimits the end of a logical control construct or the end of a statement with clauses.
DELIMITER = a character that begins or ends a unit of data
DELIMIT = to fix or define the limits of
Examples:
END-READ
END-PERFORM
END-COMPUTE (etc…)
period
Scope and System Time/Date

2. Scope and System Time/Date
ACCEPT DATE
Purpose:  accepts current date from the computer system
Syntax Definition:
ACCEPT identifier
FROM DATE [YYYYMMDD].
Examples:
01 TODAYS-DATE1 PIC 9(6).
or…
01 TODAYS-DATE2.
05 TODAYS-YR PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-MM PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-DD PIC 99.
ACCEPT TODAYS-DATE FROM DATE.
use todays-date1 or todays-date2?!
For Your Information
The default format for the date is YYMMDD.
If using the YYYYMMDD format option, the pic clause for todays-date1 is 9(8) and todays-yr is 9(4).
Scope and System Time/Date

3. Scope and System Time/Date
ACCEPT TIME
For Your Information
The default format for the date is HHMMSSss.
The HH is MILITARY TIME!
A picture clause of 9(8) could also have been used if you wanted to additional hundredths of seconds.
There is a difference between moving a 9(8) to a 9(6) – decimal justifies and truncates to left - and a 9(8) to an alphanumeric group item i.e. x(6) – left justifies and truncates to right.
Purpose:  accepts current time from the computer system
Syntax Definition:
ACCEPT identifier FROM TIME.
Examples:
01 TODAYS-TIME1 PIC 9(6).
or…
01 TODAYS-TIME2.
05 TODAYS-HR PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-MM PIC 99.
05 TODAYS-SS PIC 99.
ACCEPT TODAYS-TIME FROM TIME.
Scope and System Time/Date