What is the use of LINKAGE SECTION?



What is the use of LINKAGE SECTION?..

Answer / sreedhar

Linkage section is a part of data division.
This can be coded in 2 situations
1) When we want to pass data from Jcl to COBOL program using parm parameter.
2) when mainprogram communicates with sub program then we code linkage section in sub program

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