1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions stored thereon, wherein the program instructions are executable by a computer system to implement a program that performs operations comprising: run one or more batch jobs to extract static data from a database; creating a file that includes the extracted static data, wherein the file has a layout of an object module produced by a compiler, wherein the layout includes a header record indicating a name associated with the object module, one or more data records including the static data, and a trailer record that specifies a number of records in the file; invoking a linker associated with the compiler, wherein the linker is executable to produce a load module from the file; and providing the load module to an application that specifies a pointer associated with the load module such that the extracted static data in the load module is accessible to the application.