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COBOL, PROCEDURE_DIVISION, CALL
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The CALL statement transfers control to another program in the executable
image.
Format -
CALL prog-name
[ {{{ [BY REFERENCE] } }} [{{BY REFERENCE } }] ]
[ {{{ BY CONTENT } }} [{{BY CONTENT } }] ]
[USING{{{ BY DESCRIPTOR }{arg}...}} [{{BY DESCRIPTOR}{arg}...}] ... ]
[ {{{ BY VALUE } }} [{{BY VALUE } }] ]
[ { OMITTED } [ OMITTED ] ]
[ GIVING function-res ]
{ [ ON EXCEPTION stment ] [ NOT ON EXCEPTION stment ] }
{ [ ON OVERFLOW stment ] [ NOT ON OVERFLOW stment ] }
[ END-CALL ]
is a nonnumeric literal or the identifier of an alphanumeric data item.
It is the name of the program to which control transfers.
is the argument. It identifies the data that is available to both the
calling and called programs. It is any data item described in the
File Section, Working-Storage Section, or Linkage
Section, or it is a nonnumeric literal. It must not be a
function-identifier.
is the identifier of an elementary integer numeric data item with COMP,
COMP-1, or COMP-2 usage and no scaling positions. Function-res can be
subscripted, and it can be qualified. When control returns to the
calling program, function-res can contain a function result.
is an imperative statement.