COBOL Documentation - Release Notes

The following COBOL documentation contained in Rational Developer for System z Version 7.1 refers to the Rational Developer for System z product as WebSphere Developer for System z

The product name change from WebSphere Developer for System z to Rational Developer for System z will be provided in COBOL documentation in a future delivery of Developer for System z.

As a result of the product name change, a few Developer for System z functional details have changed. These changes are not yet reflected in the COBOL for Windows Programming Guide. The changed elements and the replacement text are as follows:

The text below from topic Setting environment variables for COBOL for Windows (PDF page 194) shows a sample of these changes in context.

Rational Developer for System z provides a command file, setenvWDZ71.bat, that you can use to set the environment variables for accessing the COBOL for Windows compiler and runtime libraries

To set up the COBOL for Windows environment in the current command window, you can issue the following command, which uses the fully qualified path to the file:

"%WDZ71INSTDIR%\bin\setenvWDZ71"

Alternatively, you can first set the PATH environment variable to access the command file, and then invoke the command file using only the file name:

SET PATH=%PATH%;%WDZ71INSTDIR%\bin
setenvWDZ71

If you want to be able to invoke the setenvWDZ71 command from any command window that you open, without having to specify the path to the file, append the following string to your PATH system environment variable in the System Properties window:

;%WDZ71INSTDIR%\bin

Instead of setting the environment variables for COBOL by invoking a command file, you can launch the COBOL environment by clicking Start -> All Programs -> install_name -> IBM Rational Developer for System z -> Command Environment for Local Compilers where install_name is a name that you assigned during installation (by default, IBM Software Development Platform).