COBOL program units (Unix and Linux systems)

You can create COBOL programs with the Micro Focus compilers or with the Fujitsu NetCOBOL compiler.

Please note the COBOL-specific programming notes in the openUTM manual „Programming Applications with KDCS” (chapter "Additional Information for Cobol", section "Platform-specific features on Unix and Linux systems").

Environment variables for COBOL programs

If you use COBOL programs then you must set compiler-specific environment variables.

Micro Focus COBOL

Perform the following steps if you use COBOL program units with Micro Focus COBOL:

>	Call the script <coboldir>/bin/cobsetenv. This script sets the required environment variables for the compiler.
> >	Extend the COBCPY environment variable by adding $UTMPATH/copy-cobol85. If you create programs based on CPIC, TX or XATMI under openUTM, extend the COBCPY environment variable as follows: $UTMPATH/<interface>/copy-cobol85, where <interface> stands for cpic, tx or xatmi.
>	If you create client programs based on UPIC-L, extend the COBCPY environment variable by adding $UTMPATH/upicl/copy-cobol85.
>	Set the COBMODE environment variable to 64, to generate 64-bit objects.

NetCOBOL

Perform the following steps if you use NetCOBOL program units:

>	Call the script <COBOLDIR>/config/cobol.sh. This script sets the required environment variables.
> > >	Extend the COBCOPY environment variable by adding $UTMPATH/netcobol. Set the COB_LIBSUFFIX environment variable to None,CPY,cpy. If you create programs based on CPIC, TX or XATMI under openUTM, extend the COBCOPY environment variable as follows: $UTMPATH/<interface>/netcobol, where <interface> stands for cpic, tx or xatmi.
>	If you create client programs based on UPIC-L, extend the COBCOPY environment variable by adding $UTMPATH/upicl/netcobol.

Note

If you use COBOL program units, you should note the following:

• There are certain compiler-specific characteristics relating to the keywords. You will find details in openUTM manual ”Programming Applications with KDCS” (chapter "Additional Information for COBOL", references to "keywords").

• If you want to generate shared objects, please read section "Shared objects (Unix and Linux systems)".