CICS reserved word table (IGYCCICS)

Enterprise COBOL provides an alternate reserved word table for CICS® application programs so that COBOL words that are not supported under CICS are flagged by the compiler.

The CICS reserved word table is the same as the default reserved word table except that the following COBOL words are marked as restricted (RSTR):
  • CLOSE
  • DELETE3
  • FACTORY
  • FD
  • FILE1
  • FILE-CONTROL1
  • INPUT-OUTPUT1
  • INVOKE
  • I-O-CONTROL
  • MERGE
  • METHOD
  • OBJECT
  • OPEN
  • READ
  • RERUN
  • REWRITE
  • SD1, 2
  • SELF
  • START
  • SUPER
  • WRITE
Notes:
  1. If you intend to use the SORT statement under CICS (COBOL supports an interface for the SORT statement under CICS), you must change the CICS reserved-word table to remove the words from the list of words marked as restricted.
  2. The SORT keyword is not restricted, but the SD keyword is. This allows you to use the format 2 (table) sort statement but not the format 1 (file) sort statement.
  3. If you restrict the DELETE keyword, you may still use the DELETE function of BASIS processing.