Processing COBOL applications with Java

Before an application which calls JCI functions is started from the BS2000 command line interface, the POSIX environment must be initialized for the run with the INITIALIZE procedures (see "INITIALIZE procedure").

The COBOL runtime system then mainly behaves as if it had been started under the POSIX shell (see “COBOL2000 (BS2000) User Manual” [5] and section "Special considerations" ).

After the application has terminated, the POSIX environment must on all accounts be reset by calling the DELETE procedure. Otherwise the environment is set incorrectly for further compilations runs.