Use the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION to name a program and optionally provide other identifying information.
You can use the optional AUTHOR, INSTALLATION, DATE-WRITTEN, and DATE-COMPILED paragraphs for descriptive information about a program. The data you enter in the DATE-COMPILED paragraph is replaced with the latest compilation date.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. Program-ID. Helloprog. Author. A. Programmer. Installation. Computing Laboratories. Date-Written. 09/08/2010. Date-Compiled. 09/15/2010.
Use the PROGRAM-ID paragraph to name your program. The program-name that you assign is used in these ways:
related tasks
Changing the header of a source listing
Identifying a program as recursive
Marking a program as callable by containing programs
Setting a program to an initial state
related references
Compiler limits (COBOL for AIX Language Reference)
Conventions for program-names (COBOL for AIX Language Reference)