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Micro Focus COBOL Language Reference - Additional Topics

User-defined Words 

Either SBCS or DBCS characters can be used and mixed freely in
user-defined wordsfor:

alphabet-name                cd-name                      class-name

condition-name               constant-name                data- name/identifier

file-name                    index-name                   level-number

library-name                 mnemonic-name                object-computer-name

paragraph-name               program-name                 record-name

report-name                  screen-name                  section-name

segment-number               source-computer-name         symbolic-character

text-name

This entry should be considered as an additional syntax rule for each
user-defined word specified above.  Where a character exists in both the
DBCS and SBCS character sets, its DBCS and SBCS representations are not
regarded as equivalent.

On some operating systems, only ASCII characters might be permitted for:

external-file-reference      library-name                 program-name

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