Data Division
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.