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Status Under review
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Created on Jul 23, 2025

ADDI - Program Flow and Flow Chart Updates For Sections in COBOL

ADDI is designed to pick up COBOL Paragraphs.  The vendor uses the word SECTION for the COBOL paragraphs.  This results in displaying the words FIRST_SENTENCES in the paragraph name in the Program Flow and Flow Chart reports.

Example:  Code = C100-PROCESS-INQUIRY-API  SECTION. 

ADDI shows C100-PROCESS-INQUIRY-API_FIRST_SENTENCES

It is recommended that ADDI is coded to accept the word Section in a COBOL program and display C100-PROCESS-INQUIRY-API or C100-PROCESS-INQUIRY-API  SECTION.

Please see IBM Case TS019543218.