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How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol

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How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol..

Answer / sushant kumar mohanty

1) PARM (Receive in Linkage Section)
2) SYSIN DD* (Receive with ACCEPT statement)
3) Files ( Declare/Define/Open in the program)

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How do pass the values to the parameters in cobol..

Answer / naidu

You can pass the values to cobol program using 3 ways:
1.passing the parameters from SYSIN
2.using parm
3.using file

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