On a different yet related subject concerning COBOL/SEU and Data Areas... was RE: Development ideas

["Weatherly, Howard" <Howard.Weatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Has anyone used data areas in COBOL? I am running into an odd problem, here
is a snippet of it:

                          Create Data Area (CRTDTAARA)



 Type choices, press Enter.



 Data area  . . . . . . . . . . . > DRDACNT       Name

   Library  . . . . . . . . . . .     *CURLIB     Name, *CURLIB

 Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > *DEC          *DEC, *CHAR, *LGL, *DDM

 Length:

   Length . . . . . . . . . . . .   13            1-2000

   Decimal positions  . . . . . .   0             0-9

 Initial value  . . . . . . . . .   0

 Text 'description' . . . . . . .   Just a transaction counter




   Special-Names.
     Trans-Count is Data-Area
     .
  Input-Output Section.
.
.
      1 WS-TRANS-COUNT.
        2 TRANS-COUNT          Pic S9(13) Packed-Decimal Value 0.

      1 WS-MISC-VARIABLES.
        2 WS-WORK-LIB             Pic  X(10) Value Space.
        2 WS-NEW-RECORD.
.
.
        Accept WS-TRANS-COUNT from Data-Area
           for "DRDACNT" library WS-WORK-LIB
.
        Display WS-TRANS-COUNT upon Data-Area
           for "DRDACNT" library WS-WORK-LIB
.
.
 5722WDS V5R1M0  010525 LN  IBM ILE COBOL for AS/400      TLMTDOBJ/LMTD615BT
ENDEAVOR   10/16/02 10:25:42        Page     21
                                    M e s s a g e s
   STMT
*    11  MSGID: LNC0830  SEVERITY: 20  SEQNBR:  002303
         Message . . . . :   Environment-name expected, 'TRANS-COUNT' found.
           Environment-name CONSOLE assumed.
*   181  MSGID: LNC1400  SEVERITY: 30  SEQNBR:  016502
         Message . . . . :   A feedback, local data area, data area, or
           attribute data mnemonic-name expected. Statement ignored.
*   274  MSGID: LNC1396  SEVERITY: 30  SEQNBR:  025803
         Message . . . . :   Mnemonic-name of type LOCAL-DATA expected;
           'DATA-AREA' found. Statement ignored.

Now what is odd other than the above (which I may have wrong!) is in SEU. If
I put the cursor on either of the "SPECIAL-NAMES." subsection or the
declaration in it, SEU will show an error:

Syntax error detected at 'TRANS-COUNT'.
                         Additional Message Information



 Message ID . . . . . . :   LNC2913       Severity . . . . . . . :   30

 Message type . . . . . :   Diagnostic



 Message . . . . :   Syntax error detected at 'TRANS-COUNT'.

 Cause . . . . . :   The syntax rules for COBOL do not permit the identified

   item at this point in the program.



If I place the cursor on say the "E" in "SPECIAL-NAME." and overtype an "E",
the error will go away?
As near as I can determine from the ILE COBOL Programming Guide, this is the
way it should be!

Anyone have any experience with this?