ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide


Running an ILE COBOL Program Using a User Created Command

You can also create a command yourself to run an ILE COBOL program by using a command definition. A command definition is an object that contains the definition of a command (including the command name, parameter descriptions, and validity-checking information), and identifies the program that performs the function requested by the command. The system-recognized object type is *CMD.

For example, you can create a command, PAY, that calls a program, PAYROLL. PAYROLL is the name of an ILE COBOL program that is called and run. You can enter the command interactively, or in a batch job. See the CL Programming book for further information about using the command definition.


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