Answer Posted / harish

subroutines are normal cobol program called by another
program...

so data passed through linkake section

in main prog we have to code

call 'sub' using a1,a2

then in subprog accept these a1 and a2 with same name or
differnt doesnt matter

then in procedure division

procedure division using a1,a2.
.........

pls correct me if anything wrong


HARISH POOMGAME SHIVAPPA
NIIT TECHNOLOGY
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