Setting the Environment

When you have installed the product, you need to set the environment as described below.

To set up your product, execute:
```
. <product-install-dir>/bin/cobsetenv
```
To verify that your product is installed, execute:
```
cob -V
```

Important: These commands set the environment only for the current shell. You need to execute them for each new shell that you start.

To avoid having to run cobsetenv for every shell, add these commands to the shell initialization files (such as /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc).

Note that cobsetenv is only compatible with POSIX-like shells, such as bash, ksh, or XPG4 sh. It is not compatible with C-shell or pre-XPG4 Bourne shell.