How do you invoke other programs? What are the pros and
cons of each method?



How do you invoke other programs? What are the pros and cons of each method?..

Answer / adwait

In COBOL - CICS, other programs can be invoked in 2 ways.
1. CALL
2. LINK/XCTL

Pros - Call -
1. Progrm definition not required.
2. no limit of data passing

Cons - Call -
1. Static

LINK / XCTL
This is a CICS way of calling program
Dyanamic calling

Cons - Link -
1. Data can be passed up to fullword binary.

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