Modifying the internal resources of a batch or online program
The internal resources of a batch or online program are its work or linkage areas. You can replace their automatically generated descriptions by calling Data Structures or Data Elements in the work and linkage areas. To do so, you specify micropatterns directly in the COBOL code of the generated instance.
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About this task
The purpose of a micropattern is to call a Data Element or Data Structure that is used as a work or linkage area.
You can organize the inserted internal resources exactly as you want to in the COBOL code. You can group them in the same place to make the COBOL code easier to read and maintain, or sort them in a special order.
See the explanations in Micropatterns to call Data Elements in the work and linkage areas and Micropattern to call Data Structures in the work and linkage areas. You can also insert these micropatterns through their snippets. The explanations can be found in Principle and use of micropatterns.