Affects the COBOL command line arguments returned from the syntax ACCEPT ... FROM ARGUMENT-NUMBER and ACCEPT ... FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE.
Restriction: These tunables are supported for native COBOL only.
Syntax:
>>-----set arguments_are_initial=-.-TRUE-.-----------><
+-FALSE+
Parameters:
| TRUE
|
The COBOL command line arguments are the same as the initial ones passed to the run-unit by the operating system. When using a trigger, such as
run
, argument 0 is the trigger name and argument 1 is the name of the main COBOL program.
|
| FALSE
|
The COBOL command line arguments do not contain any trigger name. Instead, argument 0 is always the name of the main COBOL program.
When set to FALSE this tunable gives consistent results no matter how your application is packaged.
|
Properties:
| Default:
|
FALSE
|
| IDE equivalent:
|
Use the
Application.config file of the project - right-click the file in Solution Explorer and click
Open, then select the
Run-time Configuration tab.
|
Comments:
See the
Language Reference for more details of the ACCEPT ... FROM ARGUMENT-NUMBER and ACCEPT ... FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE syntax.
If you are using a system executable to start your application, argument 0 is always the name of the executable (which, by default, is also the name of the main COBOL program), irrespective of the setting of this tunable.
For example, the command line:
myapp arg1 arg2
always returns myapp as argument 0, whereas the command line:
returns myapp as argument 0 when this tunable is set to FALSE; when the tunable is set to TRUE the trigger name (
run
) is returned as argument 0 and myapp as argument 1.
