Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Language Reference


Data manipulation statements

The following COBOL statements move and inspect data: ACCEPT, INITIALIZE, INSPECT, MOVE, READ, RELEASE, RETURN, REWRITE, SET, STRING, UNSTRING, WRITE, XML PARSE, and XML GENERATE.

Overlapping operands

When the sending and receiving fields of a data manipulation statement share a part of their storage (that is, when the operands overlap), the result of the execution of such a statement is unpredictable.


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