CONVERTSTATUS

The CONVERTSTATUS option specifies the name of a program that is called after the File Handler has finished processing to map returned status values for emulation purposes.

Syntax:

CONVERTSTATUS = program

Parameters:

program

The name of the program to be called. Three such programs are built into the product:

hoststat: The hoststat program emulates status values returned by IBM Mainframe COBOL compilers.
msstat: The msstat program emulates status values returned by Microsoft COBOL V2.

Properties:

Default:

none

Comments:

This parameter can be set globally only; that is under the tag [XFH-DEFAULT]. You cannot set the parameter for an individual file.