What is the Linkage section? What is the Use and Why the
parm length use alway "PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) or PIC S9
(4) COMP." any reason?.Please let me know any one...
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Answer Posted / rahul dev
Q) May be the question is why code lenght in COMP only not
in COMP-3 or DISPLAY type!! If somebody know plz asnwer
A) The length of linkage is stored as Binary, hence COMP.
We cannot use COMP-3 because COMP-3 stores in Packed
decimal & not in Binary.
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