Jazz Language Reference

About This Document

JazzLRM... is a series of web pages describing the Jazz programming language in detail, forming the design specification of the Jazz language during Jazz development and providing right-click Help after implementation. This document, JazzLRM_Preface, is an introduction to the Jazz Language. It will be helpful to read these LRM pages in conjunction with the User Guide pages, JazzUG_…

Where the LRM series provide a specification, the UG series provide a general description of how to use Jazz for programming, illustrating concepts and showing simple examples in a tutorial style. Use the LRM series like a dictionary to find out the rules, use the UG series like a textbook for learning the system concepts.

Jazz Language Reference - Organization

The first section, Introduction, should be read first. Later sections are designed for reference rather than tutorial, and can be read in any order. The document contains four sections:

1. Section 1 Introduction
   Describes the terms and introduces the concepts that are used in these pages to describe the Jazz Language. What is a Comment? A Statement? A Program?

2. Section 2 DEFINE
   Describes the DEFINE statement and its options. This gives MANASYS Jazz its power and is its most important statement.

Section 3: Jazz Statements

These pages are also used as on-line Help when you right-click a statement.

• ACCEPT
• Assign
• CALL
• CASE
• CLOSE
• COBOL
• CONTINUE
• COPY
• DEFINE
• DELETE
• DISPLAY
• END
• EXIT
• FOR
• GET
• HANDLE
• IF
• INITIALIZE
• INVOKE
• PARAGRAPH
• PERFORM
• PRINT
• PROCESS
• PROGRAM
• REPORT
• ROUTINE
• SEARCH
• SEND
• SET
• SQL
• START
• SUBPROGRAM
• TPRINT
• UPDATE
• WRITE

3. Section 4 Topical Reference
   Describes a few Jazz features that apply to several statements: