Someone sent this to me last year. I hope it's what you want : -

In case you have not already got the answer to this, and in case anyone else
is interested, the switches are passed to the program as a 16bit parameter,
where each bit corresponds to a switch, so bit 0 corresponds to SW0 etc. In
line with standard HP notation, the bits are numbered from 0 (the leftmost
or high order bit) to 15 (the rightmost or low-order bit). Switch 15
(equivalent to passing PARM=1) is used to enable debug statements.

To work out which switches are turned on by a given value of PARM, you need
to work out the bit pattern which this represents, e.g.

%2000 =       010|000|000|000
Bits    0|123|456|789|012|345

Thus PARM=%2000 (1024) represents SW5=ON and all others OFF.

Similarly, to set SW1=ON, you would need the following bit pattern:

%40000 =  100|000|000|000|000
Bits    0|123|456|789|012|345

i.e. PARM=%40000


-----Original Message-----
From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 August 2002 16:24
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Subject: [HP3000-L] COBOL run time switches


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Hi all,

Does anyone know of an *easy* way to determine the value required to set the
COBOL run time switches?

SW5 IS FIGURE-IT-OUT-SW ON STATUS IS FIGURED-IT-OUT


TIA


Ray Shahan

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