I wrote a standalone cobol program with GO BACK.
The program execute successfully in TSO. But I felt the GO BACK should go in infinit loop as the cobol program is the stand alone.
Can any one clarify me this.
GO BACK in stand alone COBOL program
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Thanks. I got it from manual.
A STOP RUN statement returns control to the caller of the program at the nearest control boundary. If this is a hard control boundary, the activation group (run unit) will end, and all files scoped to the activation group will be closed.
A GOBACK statement issued from a main program (which is always at a hard control boundary) behaves the same as the STOP RUN statement. A GOBACK statement issued from a subprogram behaves the same as the EXIT PROGRAM statement. It does not change the status of any of the files in a run unit unless the ILE COBOL program issuing the GOBACK has the INITIAL attribute. If it has the INITIAL attribute, then all internal files defined in that program are closed.
A STOP RUN statement returns control to the caller of the program at the nearest control boundary. If this is a hard control boundary, the activation group (run unit) will end, and all files scoped to the activation group will be closed.
A GOBACK statement issued from a main program (which is always at a hard control boundary) behaves the same as the STOP RUN statement. A GOBACK statement issued from a subprogram behaves the same as the EXIT PROGRAM statement. It does not change the status of any of the files in a run unit unless the ILE COBOL program issuing the GOBACK has the INITIAL attribute. If it has the INITIAL attribute, then all internal files defined in that program are closed.
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