DISPLAY verb

• DISPLAY statement is used to display messages and data values on the screen
• DISPLAY is also used to display several data items or literals or any combination of these
• By default, display messages are send to SYSOUT
• When DISPLAY is coded for debugging purpose, character ‘D’ is specified on column 7 of coding sheet. <link to coding sheet> These lines will be displayed in SYSOUT only when DEBUGGING MODE is enabled. If DEBUGGING MODE is not enabled, DISPLAY statements with ‘D’ in 7^th column position will be treated as comment
• Basic syntax:-
  DISPLAY {identifier/literal} [{identifier/literal}]…           [WITH NO ADVANCING]

• When more than one operand is specified, the values of operands are displayed in the sequence they are specified
• There will be no space between these values
• literal may be any literal/figurative-constant except the ALL literal
• When figurative constant is specified, only one occurrence of the constant is displayed
• The “WITH NO ADVANCING” clause suppresses the carriage-return/line-feed
• Example 1:-
  In PROCEDURE DIVISION,
  DISPLAY ‘RECORDS WRITTEN: ‘ WS-REC-COUNT.
  If WS-REC-COUNT is having PIC 9(4) and value is 1430, then upon execution of above DISPLAY statement, the following will be displayed in SYSOUT:-
  SYSOUT Display:-
  RECORDS WRITTEN: 1430

• Example 2:-
  In PROCEDURE DIVISION,
  DISPLAY WS-REC-COUNT.
  If WS-REC-COUNT is having PIC 9(4) and value is 1430, then upon execution of above DISPLAY statement, it will just display the content of the WS-REC-COUNT as shown below:-
  SYSOUT Display:-
  1430