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TP-PERFORM

Perform a paragraph, with or without passing arguments.

Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.

Targets:

CICS
DLG
IMS DC

Syntax: for Format 1

Perform a paragraph

TP-PERFORM paragraphname

Syntax: for Format 2

Perform a paragraph and pass arguments

TP-PERFORM paragraphname actualargument1[[,]
... actualargument2[,] ... actualargument8]
          .
paragraphname ([+|-]formalargument1[[,]
... [+|-]formalargument2[,] ... [+|-
]formalargument8])

General Rules:

When continuing a list of arguments onto one or more other lines, do not break an argument.
The number of actual arguments must equal the number of formal argument names and be in the same order.

Parameters:

+\|-	A plus (+) or minus (-) sign preceding a `formalargument` passes values between actual arguments and formal arguments, as follows.
	With a plus sign (+), PERFORM passes the `actualargument` value to `formalargument` after the paragraph executes. The program does not return the `formalargument` value to `actualargument`.
	With a minus sign (-), PERFORM passes the `formalargument` value to the `actualargument` after the paragraph executes.
	If there is no prefix, the PERFORM passes the `actualargument` to its corresponding `formalargument`. After the paragraph executes, PERFORM passes the `formalargument` back to its corresponding `actualargument`.
`actual-argument`	Values you send or receive from a `formalargument` in the paragraph; can be literals, identifiers, arithmetic expressions, or index names.
`formal-argument`	Values you receive from or send to an `actualargument` in the PERFORM statement.
`paragraph-name`	Name of paragraph to perform.