Closing line-sequential files

If you do not close a line-sequential file, the file is automatically closed for you under the following conditions:

• When the run unit ends normally.
• When the run unit ends abnormally, if the TRAP(ON) runtime option is set.
• When Language Environment® condition handling is completed and the application resumes in a routine other than where the condition occurred, open files defined in any COBOL programs in the run unit that might be called again and reentered are closed.

  You can change the location where the program resumes (after a condition is handled) by moving the resume cursor with the Language Environment CEEMRCR callable service or using HLL language constructs such as a C longjmp call.

File status codes are set when these implicit CLOSE operations are performed, but EXCEPTION/ERROR declaratives are not invoked.