Is it mandatory to declare S9(4) COMP in Linkage Section

Hari1282

Hi,

Why always we need to declare S9(4) COMP in Linakage Section while passing the data through PARM parameter in JCL.

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject:

Because that is required! The comp field contains the length of the passed data.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

Any parm data passed by JES to a program is defined as:

Length s9(4) binary
data --------

you define the data, the length is populated by jes to tell your program how much data is being passed.

the above is the jes format.

when you define your own data structures that are used in calls, it normally does not have the length as the first field, because the application has not defined it as such.