CP Directives

Note: The Integrated Preprocessor is supported for native COBOL only.

The CP preprocessor accepts a number of directives. In order to keep the command line short, these exist in an abbreviated form in addition to the full name. After looking at the command line in the usual way, CP also looks at the environment variable CPDIR for directives.

ANYCOPYCASE
Attempts additional case-sensitive searches for copybooks when a normal search method fails.
CONFIRM, C
Specifies whether directives are to be shown on the screen if accepted.
EXECPERIOD
Controls whether a period following END-EXEC is treated as part of that statement when there are separating spaces, lines or comments.
LIMITED-SEARCH, LS
Limits searches for copybooks to the directories specified by the COPCPY environment variable. By using this directive, and making a careful choice of both directories in the COBCPY environment variable and file extensions in the COPYEXT directive, the number of file searches can be greatly reduced.
PREPROCESS, P
Stacks another preprocessor (that is, specifies that the source input to this preprocessor is to come from another preprocessor rather than the source file itself).
SQL, S
Specifies whether EXEC SQL INCLUDE is to be treated as a COPY statement.
TRACE, T
Specifies whether to create a trace file, and optionally specifies the name of the file to be used. If the filename is omitted, it is created as progname.cpt, where progname is the basename of the main source file.
WARNINGS, WARNING, W
Specifies whether warnings about directive settings are to be shown on screen
SY
Reserved for use with COBSQL; this directive should only be used as documented in the chapter COBSQL in your Database Access book.

Parent topic: CP Preprocessor

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