HP 3000 Manuals

Micro Focus COBOL Language Reference

E

Chapter 4  Procedure Division 

The Procedure Division is optional in a COBOL source program (For MF
only.)  In a program definition it contains procedures to be executed in
the object program.  These procedures can be declarative and/or
nondeclarative.  In a call prototype it contains no procedures, neither
declarative nor nondeclarative, except that it may contain the ENTRY
statement.

Declarative sections must be grouped at the beginning of the Procedure
Division, as shown in General Format 1 below:

MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation