Yes the second one save 8 bytes of working storage which exists for each current task. It's a so called literal and exist just once for each cics region.
Roland -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CICS question Is there any difference between: 01 WS-USNAO100 PIC X(8) VALUE 'USNAO100'. ... EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM(WS-USNAO100) COMMAREA(NAME-REQUEST-INFO) LENGTH(NAME-REQ-LENGTH) END-EXEC. and EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM('USNAO100') COMMAREA(NAME-REQUEST-INFO) LENGTH(NAME-REQ-LENGTH) END-EXEC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
