How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol
program and how to use that table in called program

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / dinesh

Via linkage section. Use it as a normal table.

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / guest

Declare the tabe in both alling and called programs WS_Section
and Linkage section respectively..

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / maria

we can declare the internal table in both the called and calling program with the key word EXTERNAL .By doing this, the table data can be accessed in both the programs.

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / gaurav

It can be passed using the COBOL pointers.

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / sj

we can pass table via linkage section means static table

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / guest

Can anyone explain this by example and give some sample code of both calling and called program ?

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / santhosh

Ramkrishna is right, we cannt pass the table via linkage

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How to Pass table from a cobol program to another cobol program and how to use that table in calle..

Answer / ramakrishna.d

We cant pass a table from one cobol program to another
cobol program

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