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Naming Standards in COBOL

Where a format has to be renamed (such as when it appears twice in a program), it should be renamed to a name of the form ZMMMMx, where ZMMMM was the original format name, and x is the suffix of the logical file that is being renamed. Field names can likewise be renamed from yyMMMM to yxMMMM.