It’s the same for z/OS. There is a chapter dedicated to ILC in the books 
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=environment-zos-language-writing-interlanguage-communication-applications

> On 20 Mar 2023, at 12:53 pm, Farley, Peter 
> <0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, John, that is enlightening but it is VSE not z/OS.  I will search 
> for something similar in the z/OS docs.
> 
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> Subject: Re: Simple C language dynamic CALL's?
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> Function pointers and fetch()
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> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvse/6.2?topic=c-edcxbf11 
> 
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, 15:02 Farley, Peter, < 
>> 0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> The major z/OS programming languages (COBOL, PL/I, HLASM) allow one to 
>> write a subroutine and separately compile and link it and then call 
>> that subroutine dynamically at runtime without a whole lot of fuss.  I 
>> think even VS FORTRAN programming supports this capability.
>> 
>> From the reading I have done in the C language reference and runtime 
>> library manuals, it appears to me that dynamic subroutine calls in C 
>> can only be accomplished by setting up the separately compiled 
>> subroutine(s) in a DLL.
>> 
>> Is that a correct reading of the facts?  Or is there a simpler 
>> (non-DLL) way to set up single-procedure dynamically called subroutines in C?
>> 
>> The target environment is z/OS batch, not CICS or web.
>> 
>> Peter
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