Run-time System Configuration

You can configure the COBOL run-time system environment to ensure it behaves appropriately for an application, regardless of the configuration used by other COBOL applications.

Run-time behavior can be controlled using environment variables, a run-time launch configuration file, run-time tunables, and run-time switches.

You can specify some run-time features in a separate configuration file:

  • A separate configuration file - In a text editor, create or edit a separate text file. See the individual sections for the formats of the text files. Use the COBCONFIG environment variable to specify the location and name of the run-time configuration file for environment variables, tunables, and switches.
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