Format 7 Considerations
If identifier-1 is a group item and there is no MODE IS BLOCK phrase, those elementary subordinate items that have names other than FILLER are accepted. They are positioned on the screen in the order that their descriptions appear in the DATA DIVISION, and are separated by the lengths of the FILLER items in the group.
For this purpose, the first position on a line is regarded as immediately following the last position on the previous line. The items are accepted in the same order.
Unless otherwise specified in the CURSOR clause, the cursor initially points at the start of the first item. As the ACCEPT operation into each item terminates, the cursor moves to the start of the next item.
The CURSOR clause has no effect on the position of the fields; it can only change the cursor position for the ACCEPT statement according to stated rules.
Numeric items with PICTURE clauses containing the symbol P are not supported by the extended ACCEPT statement.
Unless you specify MODE IS BLOCK, data items must not contain fixed-length tables. Data items must not contain variable-length tables whether or not you specify MODE IS BLOCK.