How to use an external variable in linkage section in COBOL and pass values from it into a new module and write into my new output file
01:42 12 Apr 2021

Could someone please tell me why a variable is declared as "External" in a module and how to use that in other modules through Linkage section and how to pass them into new fields so I can write it to a new file.

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