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Compaq NonStop™ Pathway/iTS SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual—426750-001

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Identification Division

The Identification Division identifies the SCREEN COBOL program. The division has

one required paragraph and five optional paragraphs. If other paragraphs are present,

they are treated as comments.

The format of the Identification Division is:

The division header is:

The header must be terminated with a period separator.

Optional paragraphs AUTHOR, INSTALLATION, DATE-WRITTEN, and SECURITY

are included for documentation purposes only. The comment-entry parameter can

be any combination of characters from the SCREEN COBOL character set and

represents text appropriate for the paragraph heading.

PROGRAM-ID Paragraph

The required PROGRAM-ID paragraph names the SCREEN COBOL program unit.

The syntax of the PROGRAM-ID paragraph is:

program-unit-name

is the user-defined name of the SCREEN COBOL program unit. The name must

follow the rules for user-defined names (see Section 2, SCREEN COBOL Source

Program) and can differ from the file name of the source code or the object file.

This name is used in a CALL statement when the program is referred to in another

SCREEN COBOL program unit. This name is also used by the PATHCOM SET

TERM INITIAL and SET PROGRAM TYPE commands.

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

PROGRAM-ID. program-unit-name.

[ AUTHOR. [ comment-entry ] ]

[ INSTALLATION. [ comment-entry ] ]

[ DATE-WRITTEN. [ comment-entry ] ]

[ DATE-COMPILED. [ comment-entry ] ]

[ SECURITY. [ comment-entry ] ]

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

PROGRAM-ID. program-unit-name.