The linkage section is part of a called program that 'links' or maps to data items in the calling program's working storage. It is the part of the called program where these share items are defined.

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• Jul 4th, 2011

It is used to pass data from one program to another program or when we pass data from JCL thru parm perameter to the program, we should use lenkage section in the program to retrieve the data.

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• Aug 7th, 2010

The Data that the sub program is going to receive from the Main program is declared as part of the linkage section in the sub program. Hence, the identifiers in the Linkage section are used when being called by a main program.

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