COBCH0301 - COBCH0320

• COBCH0301 Unrecognized verb
  You have either used a verb in the Procedure Division of your program that your COBOL system does not recognize as a valid COBOL verb, or have misspelled a COBOL verb.
• COBCH0302 IF....ELSE or scope-delimiter mismatch
  An error exists in your coding of an IF statement in the Procedure Division of your program. The two halves of one IF statement do not match.
• COBCH0303 Operand has wrong data-type
  You have used a data item with the wrong data-type in one of your statements. For example, you have used a filename instead of a record-name in a WRITE statement.
• COBCH0304 Procedure name name not unique
  Two or more sections in the Procedure Division, or two or more paragraphs in a section, of your program have the same title.
• COBCH0305 Procedure name name same as data-name
  A paragraph in the Procedure Division of your program has the same name as a data item declared in the Data Division.
• COBCH0306 Entry name not unique
  You have used the same entry point-name more than once in your program. (This might be because the entry point name is the same as the Program-ID.)
• COBCH0307 Wrong combination of data-types
  You are trying to manipulate data items which are not compatible.
• COBCH0308 Conditional statement not allowed in this context
  You have used a conditional statement (one which specifies that the truth value of a condition is to be determined at run time) in the Procedure Division where an imperative statement is expected.
• COBCH0309 Malformed subscript
  You have probably specified two subscripts for a one-dimensional table item.
• COBCH0310 ACCEPT/DISPLAY syntax incorrect
  You have either used invalid syntax with an ACCEPT or DISPLAY statement, or have incorrectly coded that part of your code containing the communications syntax. The most likely cause of this message is a spelling mistake in your code.
• COBCH0311 Illegal syntax used with I-O verb
  Code following an I/O verb (for example READ or WRITE) violates the rules of COBOL syntax.
• COBCH0312 Invalid arithmetic statement
  An arithmetic statement which you have used in the Procedure Division does not conform to the rules of COBOL syntax. These statements must begin with an arithmetic verb (for example SUBTRACT or DIVIDE), followed by the relevant numeric literals or identifiers which the verb will act upon when the program is executed. The statement which you have specified is not a valid one.
• COBCH0313 Invalid arithmetic expression
  An arithmetic expression which you have used in the Procedure Division is not a valid one.
• COBCH0314 Illegal key
  The key value in a file operation or in a SEARCH statement is the wrong size.
• COBCH0315 Invalid conditional expression
  A conditional expression which you have specified in the Procedure Division of your program does not conform to the rules of COBOL syntax. These expressions, an example of which is the statement immediately following an IF, enable one of two following statements to be executed at run time depending on the truth value.
• COBCH0316 Too many AFTERs in PERFORM statement
  A PERFORM statement can be followed only by seven AFTER phrases. Your code exceeds this limit.
• COBCH0317 Incorrect structure of Procedure Division
  You have made a mistake in the coding of the Procedure Division. For example, you might have forgotten one of the Section headers.
• COBCH0318 File must have ACCESS SEQUENTIAL
  The file named in this statement must have sequential access mode. A file's access mode is derived from its SELECT statement; it is either implied by the file's organization or specified by its ACCESS MODE clause.
• COBCH0319 Only index-names allowed with this format
  An index-name is required at this point in the operation you are trying.
• COBCH0320 Too many operands in one statement
  A statement in the Procedure Division of your program contains too many operands or individual operands that are too long.

Parent topic: Messages COBCH0301 to COBCH400

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