Thank you! ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2021 11:04 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: LINK vs LOAD/CALL
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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
