COBOL/400 Language Help
- Data-name-1 is a user-defined word that names a data item
described in a data description entry. When you use it in the general
formats, data-name-1 represents a word that must not be
reference-modified, subscripted, or qualified unless specifically permitted by
the rules for the format.
- Data items defined in the Linkage Section of the called program may be
referenced within the Procedure Division of that program if, and only if, they
satisfy any of the following conditions:
- They are operands of the USING phrase of the Procedure Division
header.
- They are defined with a REDEFINES or RENAMES clause, the object of which
satisfies the above conditions.
- They are items subordinate to any item that satisfies the condition in the
rules above.
- They are condition-names or index-names associated with data items that
satisfies the above conditions.
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