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What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL
using PARM parameter without declaring the length field in
Linkage Section?

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What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL using PARM parameter without declaring..

Answer / madhu t

if we do not code the length field for parm in cobol then
the first 2 bytes of parm data will be used to stored the
length of parm field and also first 2 bytes of parm data
will be lost.

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What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL using PARM parameter without declaring..

Answer / randhir

if we do not code the length field for parm in cobol then
the first 2 bytes of parm data will be used to stored the
length of parm field and also last 2 bytes of parm data
will be lost.

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