Re: "Shared" procedure division code

> I neither recommend this approach nor (personally) know of any reason to use it
> in today's computing environment, but did think it was worth mentioning (both
> for the "use of duplicated code" and the solution to "maintenance of such code")

Maintenance of the code is the big reason to use such code.

If you have a routine that works and is used by a number of different
programs, putting it in a copybook is the quickest and easiest way to
stream line the maintenance. However If it starts getting to big there
is the question of making it it's own sub program.

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