Cobol UPSI Switches

[BrianTyler]

Although the Cobol documentation describes the 8 UPSI switches, defined in Special Names, I can find no way of using them in the AIX documentation.

On other platforms I have been able to run a cobol program and communicate with the program by setting one of the switches. For example a long-running program could be instructed to close down when it finds that a particular switch has become set by an operator.

Is there a similar functionality in AIX, basically to set an UPSI switch while the program is running ?

Thanks

Brian

 

[baruch]

Hi
I use rcobol at AIX.
IN rmcobol you can set the switch by runcobol test -s 0001
(run test with 4 sw=on)
Barry