READ-ONLY Directive

The READ-ONLY directive causes the subsequent field to be marked as read-only in the dictionary files generated by the -efc and -efd compiler options. Currently isCOBOL Database Bridge and isCOBOL SQL Server ignore this information.

$EFD READ-ONLY

or

*(( EFD READ-ONLY ))

or

*>(( EFD READ-ONLY ))

Example

The field customer-code will be marked as read-only in the dictionary file.

$EFD READ-ONLY  03 CUSTOMER-CODE PIC X(7).