The following rules apply to the PROCESS statement:
- The statement must be placed before the first source statement in the
program immediately preceding the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION header.
- The statement begins with the word PROCESS. Options can appear on more
than one line; however, only the first line can contain the word PROCESS.
- The word PROCESS and all options must appear within positions 8 through
72. Position 7 must be left blank. The remaining positions can be used as
in COBOL source statements: positions 1 through 6 for sequence numbers, positions
73 through 80 for identification purposes.
- The options must be separated by blanks and/or commas.
- The options can appear in any order. If conflicting options are specified,
for example, LIST and NOLIST, the last option encountered takes precedence
- For any options with suboptions, if the option keyword is correct and
the suboption is in error, the default suboption is assumed.