General Enterprise Server Environment Variables

The following environment variables are applicable to all components of Enterprise Server.

ES_3270_REMOVE_NULL_COLOR_ATTRIB
Stops the extended color attribute set to low-values from being sent to the 3270 emulator. This fixes an IBM issues related to Personal Communications (PCOM) which is described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461404.
ES_CAS_API
Indicates whether casout or cassub has been executed by a call and not from the command line.
ES_CONSOLE_LOG
Sends console messages to the Windows Event Log.
ES_CSKL_NO_MSG_CONSOLE
Stops CSKL writing messages to console.log.
ES_ELAPSED_DISPATCH_SECONDS
Enables you to specify how frequently casmgr will check for JOBs in the waiting state, in seconds (s), and then start them. The default value is every 5 seconds.
ES_ESM_DISABLE_DFLTUSER_ESMAC
Allows you to disable the default ESMAC user in order to increase the security of your server. Disables the DEFAULT button on the logon screen and forces users to always enter a valid userid and password.
ES_ESMAC_DISP_MAX_OVERRIDE
The number of items displayed in the ESMAC catalog view or lines displayed in a SYSOUT file from the job list view.
ES_LEGACY_ECI
Indicates that Enterprise Server must use Micro Focus ECI instead of IBM CTG.
ES_MAX_CATALOG_LINES
Restricts the number of entries displayed in ESMAC catalog view, and the default is 5000.
ES_MAX_HTTP_OUT [14]
Specifies the maximum size (in bytes) of the HTTP response sent by Enterprise Server.
Note: Previously, this was only controlled by the HTTP Out field on the ESCWA ES Control page.
ES_MEM_STRATEGY
Selects the types of memory processes supported.
ES_OTMA_TIMEOUT
The time that an OTMA client should wait for an answer.
ES_RDO_MAX_RESOURCES
Specifies the maximum number of records for CICS resource types which will be displayed in Enterprise Server Common Web Administration (ESCWA) or Enterprise Server Monitor and Control (ESMAC).
ES_SEP_DORMANT_TIME
Allows override of Transient SEP dormant time.
ES_SERVER
Server name (used if no -r switch is specified on casstart or casstop).
ES_SYSOUT_HOLD
The status of the SYSOUT files are set to Out Hold.
ES_TN3270_FORCE_ALT
Enables you to use a screen size other than the default when using a TN3270 terminal emulator.
ES_TN3270_MODEL_LOG
Writes the TN3270 emulator's model name to a temporary storage queue named TN32MODL that can be viewed using the CEBR transaction.
ES_USR_DFLT_CICS
Allows you to override the default user when no user is logged on for CICS authentication.
ES_USR_DFLT_ESMAC
Allows you to override the default user when no user is logged on for ESMAC authentication.
ES_USR_DFLT_JES
Allows you to override the default user when no user is logged on for JES authentication.
ES_WS_RUNAWAY_TIMEOUT
Time in seconds that the client will wait for a response from the web service. Valid values are 0 to 65535 seconds.
IMSCPY
The location of copybook files for the DBDGEN, MFSGEN, and PSBGEN utilities.
ISPPROF
The location of ISPF dialog profiles.
JAVA_HOME
Specifies the location of the JDK.
MAINFRAME_FLOATING_POINT
Specifies the format to use for floating point data items. Possible formats are IBM hexadecimal and IEEE.

Syntax

SET MAINFRAME_FLOATING_POINT=fpstatus

Parameters

fpstatus Which format to use for floating point data items. This must be one of:

  • true Specifies that IBM hexadecimal format floating point data items are to be used.
  • false Specifies that IEEE format floating point data items are to be used.

Setting MAINFRAME_FLOATING_POINT to anything other than true has the same effect as setting it to false.

The setting of this environment variable can be overridden by the NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT directive.

MF_AMODE31ONLY
Indicates that all programs are AMODE(31).
MF_CHARSET
Specifies the system character set (ASCII or EBCDIC).
MF_USESCA5
Specifies that the server should use version 5 of the Open Service Component Architecture.
Values:
  • ON (Default)
  • OFF
MFCODESET
Specifies which translation tables to use.
Values
  • A pre-defined country code:
    Important: To specify a Euro codeset, meaning that it includes the Euro symbol (€), prefix an "E" to the appropriate country code listed below. A country code with no "E" prefix indicates a non-Euro code.

    Country Code

    (MFCODESET)

    EBCDIC CCSIDs Language
    AUTOMATIC

    AUTO

    Operating system default - sets country code based on CBL_GET_OS_INFO
    DEFAULT Set to 0437 (US English) on Windows, or 0081 (Japanese Katakana Extended) on Japanese Windows.
    0031 37, 1140 Dutch
    0033 297, 1147 French
    0034 284, 1145 Spanish
    0039 280, 1144 Italian
    0043 273, 1141 German (Austrian)
    0044 285, 1146 UK English
    0045 277, 1142 Danish
    0046 278, 1143 Swedish
    0047 277, 1142 Norwegian
    0049 273, 1141 German
    0066 838 Thai Extended
    0081† 930 (290, 300) * Japanese Katakana Extended
    0082 933 (833, 834) *Korean
    0086 13676 (836, 837) *Simplified Chinese
    0351 37, 1140 Portuguese
    0358 278, 1143 Finnish
    0420[4] 420 Arabic

    See Arabic Support Considerations below.

    0437 37, 1140 US English
    0500 500, 1148 International (Latin 1)
    0886 937 (37, 835) *Traditional Chinese
    0930 † 930 (290, 300) *Japanese Katakana Extended
    0939 † 939 (1027, 300) *Japanese Latin Extended
    9122 † 9122 (290, 300) *Japanese Katakana

    Character sets marked with an asterisk (*) are capable of mixed single-byte and double-byte character translation. EBCDIC CCSIDs in these rows indicate the mixed-byte CCSID first, followed by the single-byte, then double-byte Code Page Global Identifiers (CPGIDs) in parenthesis.

    Other EBCDIC CCSIDs in parentheses reflect a 'non-Euro, Euro' pair for appropriate country codes.

    For database applications using a DBMS server on Windows, use the table above.

    For database applications accessing a UNIX database created with single-byte character sets 819 or 923, use the following table:
    Country Code

    (MFCODESET)

    EBCDIC CCSIDs Languages
    1140 37,1140 Dutch US English Portuguese
    1141 273,1141 German (Austrian) German
    1142 277,1142 Danish Norwegian
    1143 278,1143 Swedish Finnish
    1144 280,1144 Italian
    1145 284,1145 Spanish
    1146 285,1146 UK English
    1147 297,1147 French
    1148 500,1148 International (Latin 1)
  • A code between 2000 and 9999 (except 9122) corresponds to a user-defined translation table. User-defined tables are created using the Codecomp utility.

If you are not using UK or US language settings, you must also set the codepage in your PC environment settings:

  • Right click My Computer.
  • Select Properties.
  • Click Advanced system settings.
  • Click Environment Variables.
  • Under System Variables click New.
  • Enter MFCODESET as Variable name and XXXX as Variable value, where XXXX is your chosen codepage.
MFCSCFG
Specifies a configuration file to be used by the Client/Server Binding client program.

Syntax

SET MFCSCFG=filename

Parameters

filename The name of the configuration file.

Example

SET MFCSCFG=/home/mydir/mfclisrv.cfg

Comments

The value of MFCSCFG is overridden by any value defined in the command line. If neither of the above yields a filename, the default filename mfclisrv.cfg is assumed, and is searched for in the current directory. If that in turn is not found, the default settings for the configuration entries are used.

MFEXTMAP
Location of a mapper file.
MFLOGDIR
Specifies a directory to be used by Client/Server Binding for log files.

Syntax

SET MFLOGDIR=dirname

Parameters

dirname The name of the directory for log files.

Example

SET MFLOGDIR=/home/mydir/logs
MFLECONFIG

Specifies a configuration file for Language Environment (LE) runtime options.

Syntax

SET MFLECONFIG=filename

Parameters

filename The file containing the LE runtime options you want to use.

MFPRELOAD_USE
Calls MFPRELOAD to improve perfomance.
MFRU_NOINHERIT
Determines if processes are registered in shared memory during initialisation of the run-time system. COBRT105 errors can occur during initialisation if a very large number of COBOL processes are running and there are no available slots in the shared memory segment - setting this variable to Y or TRUE skips the registration process. However, when set to Y, various run-time settings (switches, shared memory, console window settings, etc...) are no longer inherited by any child processes.

When the variable is not set (which is the default), the registration process is not skipped.

Syntax

SET MFRU_NOINHERIT=Y|TRUE

The default is that the variable is not set.

MFSUB
Specifies whether to use SUBI or ASUBI.
MFSYSCATDIR
The location of the system catalog directory.
MFUSER
Default user ID.
MFUSERCAT_LOC
The fully-qualified name of the SMS dataset.
MQSERVER
The location of an WebSphere MQ Server installation.
MULTMFENTMAP
Specifies whether special characters such as < and & are replaced with the equivalent HTML entities (for example &lt; and &amp;).
OOSW
OO run-time switches.
TX_TN3270_FORCE_ALT
Enables you to use a screen size other than the default when using a TN3270 terminal emulator.
TXMAPP
The location of the BMS load module.
TXRDTP
The location of MSS resource definition (RDO) files.
USER
Default user name.