In Procedure Division rules, the term identifier means the complete specification of a data item. The term refers to all words required to make your reference to the item unique. To reference a data item that is a function, a function-identifier is used. Format 1 - data-name [qualification] [subscripting] [reference modification] Format 2 - data-name [qualification] [indexing] [reference modification] Format 3 - FUNCTION function-name [ ({argument}...) ] [reference modification]