What will happen when we try to pass data from JCL to COBOL
using PARM parameter without declaring the length field in
Linkage Section?
Answer Posted / randhir
if we do not code the length field for parm in cobol then
the first 2 bytes of parm data will be used to stored the
length of parm field and also last 2 bytes of parm data
will be lost.
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