Procedure Division Header

You can specify the parameters, both passed to a member and items returned, in either the method signature or the procedure division header. If the parameters are specified in the method signature, the procedure division header must be omitted from the method.

See method signature for more information about parameter specification.

procedure-division-header

Syntax of the Procedure Division header attribute-clause attribute-clause attribute-clause attribute-clause attribute-clause

See the Core sample, which is available from Start > All Programs > Micro Focus Visual COBOL > Samples , under Language Reference for JVM COBOL (Windows) or $COBDIR/demo (UNIX).