Code double slash at the end, followed by any run-time options.
- Don Imbriale
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Donald Johnson <dej....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have looked this question up in lots of ways and came up empty. I hope
> someone here can help.
>
> I am trying to pass a parm into a COBOL program, and the parm contains a
> Unix path name. For example, the parm may contain 'cd
> /a/myuser/REALLYLONGDIRECTORYNAME/'. However, when the program runs, it
> thinks everything after the / is LE run-time control options, and produces
> error messages:
> CEE3608I The following messages pertain to the invocation command run-time
> options.
> CEE3606I The string 'REALLYLONGDIRECTORYNAME was too long and was ignored.
>
> My question is how I can use slashes in my parm statement without them
> being
> seen as LE options? I have tried PARM='...' and PARM=('...'), but they both
> produce the same results.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
> *don*
>
>
>
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