Difference between working and local storage section.

Novice · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:10 am

What are the diffrerence between working storage and local storage sections? Could any one describe with an example please.

Regards

superk · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:36 am

Is the explanation and example from IBM not sufficient?

publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3PG20/1.1.3.2?DT=20040220035836#HDRHDRVERK

kanak · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 252 Location: India

sorry to say superk i didn't get any information with the link what u have provided. Though the topic discussed almost 1 yr back, but i joined just few days back so i was going thru it. In the link provided by you conatins information how the Working storage varibale acts and all.Apart from that it is being mentioned that
"A separate copy of LOCAL-STORAGE data is allocated for each call of a program or invocation of a method, and is freed on return from the program or method. "

and with working storage varibale even, when control return back then also all the memory get deallocated.isn't both are the same.
and at the same time if you don't mind can you plz tell me where
LOCAL-STORAGE is used, i mean which division and what is the purpose behind that.

somasundaran_k · Active User Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 134

Kanak
Did you check the link provided by Superk properly? There is a link
for the examples.
publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3PG20/1.1.3.2.1?DT=20040220035836#HDRWQ38
Also they have provided some other threads in the related tasks section.

hth
-Som