One place where I worked I had a standard copy/include that went along the
lines of this:

  SW1 IS BIT-1-VALUE ON STATUS IS BIT-1-SET
  SW2 IS BIT-2-VALUE ON STATUS IS BIT-2-SET
  SW3 IS BIT-4-VALUE ON STATUS IS BIT-4-SET
  SW4 IS BIT-8-VALUE ON STATUS IS BIT-8-SET
  SW5 IS BIT-16-VALUE ON STATUS IS BIT-16-SET
  ...

to figure out what "parm=" value I need, it is easy to read this copylib
entry and figure it out (that is, until powers-of-two become so
second-nature that it takes longer to remember the copylib exists...)

Unfortunately, I don't have ready access to the source or a handy listing to
refer to for the exact values -- I'm thinking that the HP is "backward" in
that SW1 is actually bit-position 15, or 2^16 for the "value" (32768) --
yup, just reviewed the other message on this thread, so adjust my above
example accordingly...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shahan, Ray
>
> 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

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