LINK is one step, rather than LOAD/CALL/DELETE. LINK will honor the target module's reusability attributes. It is more overhead for a frequently invoked program. Technically, LINK creates a new PRB, which is sometimes, if rarely, required. You would probably find out the first time if the called program does an XCTL or an EXIT and you crash.
sas On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:54 PM Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > I am not a systems programmer. I am a COBOL programmer who knows only > enough assembler to be dangerous. > What is the "difference" between doing a LOAD and a CALL to perform a > dynamic call and doing a LINK? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
