| ### Maybe restructuring would help

One of the perks of using Program Understanding is the ability to view your programs' control flow and get information on the complexity, understandability, and maintainability of your programs. This will help you determine the benefits of structuring your programs. to view how to get a flow graph..

Not only will the analysis of your programs be enhanced by a clean structure, the task of making the changes will be considerably eased. VisualAge COBOL includes a structuring facility that makes it relatively easy. In about 25% of typical COBOL programs, some manual preparation of the program before structuring will help you obtain the maximum benefit.

You can use the information from the analysis step to improve the input program and decrease the number of complex PERFORMs. Program Conversion and Structuring also has an Expert Advice feature that tells you how to do the program preparation. This advice is provided for programs with complex performed procedures (Group I) or procedures that have multiple entries and/or exits (Group II).. Several reports are also created to help you understand the resulting program

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