Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Language Reference


Paragraph headers or paragraph names

A paragraph header or paragraph name indicates the beginning of a paragraph.

In the environment division, a paragraph consists of a paragraph header followed by one or more entries. For example:

OBJECT-COMPUTER. computer-name.

In the procedure division, a paragraph consists of a paragraph-name followed by one or more sentences.


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