The ACCEPT Statement

The following format of the ACCEPT statement is supported:

General Format

General Rules

1. The ACCEPT operation treats a group item as an elementary item, if you set the MS Compiler directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system: it accepts the item itself and not its subordinate elementary items.
2. If the screen position at which the first operand is to appear is not specified, the default is the current cursor position, if you set the MS Compiler directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system.
3. Rules 1 and 2 above also apply to Format 5 of the ACCEPT statement as described in the topic The ACCEPT Statement.
4. The WITH phrase options and their equivalents are:

   AUTO/AUTO-SKIP BACKGROUND-COLOR BELL/BEEP BLINK FOREGROUND-COLOR LENGTH-CHECK REVERSE-VIDEO RIGHT-JUSTIFY SECURE/NO-ECHO SIZE SPACE-FILL TRAILING-SIGN UNDERLINE UPDATE ZERO-FILL

   These options also apply to Format 5 of the ACCEPT statement as described in the topic The ACCEPT Statement.

   The options listed below differ from standard COBOL, as follows:

   
   
   1. UPDATE. If the UPDATE option is not specified, a data item for data entry is displayed initially as spaces, if you set the MS Compiler directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system. (If the MS directive is not set, the display of initial data is a configuration option.)

      If the UPDATE option is specified, initial data of the data item for data entry is displayed.

   2. PROMPT. This option need not be specified to display prompt characters, if you set the MS Compiler directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system.
   3. LENGTH-CHECK. If this option is specified, it causes an implicit EMPTY-CHECK option, so that the operator must enter something. You set the MS Compiler directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system, if you have specified this option.
5. FOREGROUND-COLOR and BACKGROUND-COLOR. Integer-1 in these options specifies the foreground color and background color of the screen item respectively, and can be defined by a value from 0 to 15, as follows:

   0	black	8	grey
   1	blue	9	light blue
   2	green	10	light green
   3	cyan	11	light cyan
   4	red	12	light red
   5	magenta	13	light magenta
   6	brown	14	yellow
   7	white	15	high intensity white

   On a color screen, if the FOREGROUND-COLOR option specifies an integer whose value is from 8 to 15, this is equivalent to specifying an integer from 0 to 7 and specifying the HIGHLIGHT option. On a monochrome screen, this is equivalent to simply specifying the HIGHLIGHT option.

   On a color screen, if the BACKGROUND-COLOR option specifies an integer whose value is from 8 to 15, this is equivalent to specifying an integer from 0 to 7 and specifying the BLINK option. On a monochrome screen, this is equivalent to simply specifying the BLINK option.