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LIMITED-SEARCH, LS

Limits searches for copybooks to the directories specified by the COPCPY environment variable. By using this directive, and making a careful choice of both directories in the COBCPY environment variable and file extensions in the COPYEXT directive, the number of file searches can be greatly reduced.

Syntax:

Restriction: The Integrated Preprocessor is supported for native COBOL only.

>>------.----.--LIMITED-SEARCH-------><
        +-NO-+

Properties:

Default:

NOLIMITED-SEARCH

Comments:

This directive limits searches for copybooks to the directories specified by the COPCPY environment variable.

This can reduce compilation time. If the directive is set:

Copybooks are searched for in the directories specified by COBCPY, omitting the directory where the source is located
The copybook extension specified by the OSEXT directive is not used in the search (any extensions specified by COPYEXT are used, however)