ILE COBOL Language Reference
The Data Division is divided into four sections:
- File Section
- Describes externally stored data (including sort-merge files).
- Working-Storage Section
- Describes internal data.
- Local-Storage Section
- Describes internal data that is allocated on a per-invocation
basis.
- Linkage Section
- Describes data made available by another program. It appears in the
called program and describes data items that are provided by the calling
program and are referred to by the called program. The called program
can be a nested program.
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