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6.2.4 CALL Statement
The CALL statement transfers control from one object program to another within the run unit.
The program containing the CALL statement is the calling program; the program identified in the CALL statement is the called subprogram. Called programs can contain CALL statements; however, a called program must not execute a CALL statement that directly or indirectly calls the calling program.

X Programs defined with the RECURSIVE attribute can execute a CALL statement
X that directly or indirectly CALLs itself.

X Do not specify the name of a class or a method in the CALL statement. 





    ___ Format _______________________________________________________________________________________ 
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >>__CALL__ _identifier-1______ ________________________________________________________________> |
   |           |_literal-1_________|                                                                  |
   |           |_ procedure-ptr-1 _|                                                                  |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >__ ______________________________________________________________________________ ____________> |
   |    |        <___________________________________________________________________  |              |
   |    |                                   <____________________________________    | |              |
   |    |_USING____ _ ___________________ ____ _ ______________ __identifier-2_ _|_ _|_|              |
   |               | |_ ____ __REFERENCE_|    | |_ ADDRESS OF _|               |   |                  |
   |               |   |_BY_|                 |               (1)              |   |                  |
   |               |                          |_ file-name-1 __________________|   |                  |
   |               |                          |_ OMITTED ______________________|   |                  |
   |               |                  <____________________________________        |                  |
   |               |_ ____ __CONTENT____ _ ______________ __identifier-3_ _|_______|                  |
   |               | |_BY_|             | |_ ADDRESS OF _|               |         |                  |
   |               |                    | |_ LENGTH OF __|               |         |                  |
   |               |                    |_ literal-2 ____________________|         |                  |
   |               |                    |_ OMITTED ______________________|         |                  |
   |               |                    <______________________________________    |                  |
   |               |_ ______ __ VALUE ____ _ ______________ __ identifier-4 _ _|___|                  |
   |                 |_ BY _|             | |_ ADDRESS OF _|                 |                        |
   |                                      | |_ LENGTH OF __|                 |                        |
   |                                      |_ literal-3 ______________________|                        |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >__ _______________________________ __ ________________________________________________ _______> |
   |    |__ RETURNING __ identifier-5 __|  |_ __________________ __ ______________________ _|         |
   |                                       | |_| on_exception |_|  |_| not_on_exception |_| |         |
   |                                       |_ ____ __OVERFLOW__imperative-statement-3_______|         |
   |                                         |_ON_|                                                   |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >__ __________ _______________________________________________________________________________>< |
   |    |_END-CALL_|                                                                                  |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | on_exception:                                                                                    |
   | |__ ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________| |
   |    |_ ____ __EXCEPTION__imperative-statement-1_|                                                 |
   |      |_ON_|                                                                                      |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | not_on_exception:                                                                                |
   | |__ ________________________________________________ __________________________________________| |
   |    |_NOT__ ____ __EXCEPTION__imperative-statement-2_|                                            |
   |           |_ON_|                                                                                 |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | Note:                                                                                            |
 X | (1)  File-name-1 is supported on OS/390 and VM only.                                             |
   |                                                                                                  |
   |__________________________________________________________________________________________________|
identifier-1, literal-1
Literal-1 must be a nonnumeric literal. Identifier-1 must be an alphanumeric data item such that its value can be a program name.

X The rules of formation for program names are dependent on the PGMNAME
X compiler option. For details, see the discussion of program names in
X "PROGRAM-ID Paragraph" in topic 3.1.1 and also the description of the
X PGMNAME compiler option in the IBM COBOL Programming Guide for your
X platform.

X Identifier-1 can be an alphabetic or zoned decimal data item.
X Identifier-1 cannot be a windowed date field.

X procedure-pointer-1

X Must be defined with USAGE IS PROCEDURE-POINTER, and must be set to a
X valid program entry point; otherwise, the results of the CALL
X statement are undefined.

X After a program has been canceled by COBOL, released by PL/I or C, or
X deleted by assembler, any procedure-pointers that had been set to that
X program's entry point are no longer valid.
When the called subprogram is to be entered at the beginning of the Procedure Division, literal-1 or the contents of identifier-1 must specify the program-name of the called subprogram.

X When the called subprogram is entered through an ENTRY statement,
X literal-1 or the contents of identifier-1 must be the same as the name
X specified in the called subprogram's ENTRY statement.
For information on how the compiler resolves CALLs to program names found in multiple programs, see "Conventions for Program-Names" in topic 2.1.1.1.

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