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COBOL Directives

The following are COBOL directives that the Compiler also passes to COBSQL regardless of their position in a command line relative to PREPROCESS(cobsql):

Directive	Description
[NO]BELL	Controls whether COBSQL sounds the bell when an error occurs.
[NO]BRIEF	Controls whether COBSQL shows SQL error text as well as the error number.
[NO]CONFIRM	Displays accepted/rejected COBSQL directives.
[NO]LIST	Saves the precompiler listing file (.lis).
[NO]WARNING	Determines the lowest severity of SQL errors to report.

For complete information on each of these directives, see Compiler Directives.