The File Description Entry (Report Writer)

It determines the internal or external attributes of a file connector, of the associated data records, and of the associated data items. The file description entry also determines whether a file-name is a local name or a global name.

General Format

Syntax Rules

The level indicator FD identifies the beginning of the file description entry for a report file and must precede the file-name of the report file.
The clauses which follow file-name-1 can appear in any order.
File-name-1 can only reference a sequential file.
No record description entries can follow the file description entry for a report file.
Record description entries are permitted.
The subject of a file description entry that specifies a REPORT clause can be referenced in the procedure division only by the USE statement, the CLOSE statement, or the OPEN statement with the OUTPUT or EXTEND phrase.

General Rules

With the exception of the REPORT clause, all clauses in the file description entry for a report file are presented in the sequential I-O module.
Details on the REPORT clause are presented below.