Identification Division; Specification Of Identification Division - Control Data Corporation 3300 Reference Manual

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SPECIFICATION OF
IDENTIFICATION
DIVISION
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IDENTIFICATION DIVISON 1
The Identification Division specifies the information to identify the source
program and the output from compilation. It must include the program name,
and may also include the date the program was written, the date compiled,
and so forth. Information specified in this division is included in the listing
of the source program, but only the PROGRAM -ID clause affects the object
program.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. program-name.
[AUTHOR. comment-paragraph.]
[INSTALLATION. comment-paragraph.]
[DATE-WillTTEN. comment-paragraph.]
[DATE-COMPILED. [comment-paragraph.]]
[SECURITY. comment-paragraph. ]
[REMARKS. comment-paragraph.]
The header IDENTIFICATION DIVISION begins in column 8 of the first line
and is followed by a period and a space. The name of each succeeding para-
graph is specified on a new line; each begins in column 8 and is followed by
a period and a space. The comment paragraphs are any combination of
characters from the COBOL character set (appendix B) organized to con-
form to sentence and paragraph structure. Only the PROGRAM-ID paragraph
is required.
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