The CHANGE control statement changes a section name, a common section name, an entry name, an external or weak external reference, or a pseudoregister.

The CHANGE statement must immediately precede either the input module that contains the external symbol to be changed, or the INCLUDE statement that specifies the input module. The scope of the CHANGE statement is the immediately following module.

If a CHANGE statement appears in a data set included from an automatic call library and is not immediately followed by an object module in the same data set, the request for the change is ignored.

See CHANGE statement for the specific information on using the CHANGE control statement.