Conventions for Program-Names

The program-name of a program is specified in the PROGRAM-ID paragraph of the program's Identification Division. A program-name can be referenced only by the:

Names of programs constituting a run unit are not necessarily unique, but when two programs in a run unit are identically named, at least one of those two programs must be directly or indirectly contained within another separately compiled program which does not contain the other of those two programs.

The following rules regulate the scope of a program-name.
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