The Unexecuted Procedures Report

The Unexecuted Procedures report contains the following information for each unexecuted procedure:

• A list of the files that include unexecuted procedures. This includes the file you are running the report on (a COBOL program or a copybook), the COBOL program that references that file if it is a copybook, then any other copybooks that are referenced by the COBOL program that include unexecuted procedures
• Line numbers - for each file in the report, the exact line numbers where the unexecuted procedures are found
• The name of the procedure that is unexecuted
• The type of the unexecuted procedure

You might want to check that your program does not contain any procedure names that are not referenced explicitly by the program. Such procedures are not necessarily redundant as they might be executed without your knowledge as a result of unexpected PERFORM ranges.

You should not assume that any procedure listed in an Unexecuted Procedures report is never executed. Instead, you should investigate whether control passes into the procedure. You could do this using a breakpoint or producing statement count information.