Enabling the error messages

If your system uses the en_US locale and encoding, the compiler and runtime message catalogs are automatically configured to display correctly. However, if your system uses any other supported locale, you must set the NLSPATH environment variable so that the compiler and runtime functions can find the appropriate message catalogs after installation.

For example, to specify the Japanese locale with the ja_JP code page, use the following commands:

LANG=ja_JP  
NLSPATH=$NLSPATH:/opt/ibm/cobol/1.1.0/usr/share/locale/%L/%N:/opt/ibm/cobol/rte/usr/share/locale/%L/%N
export LANG NLSPATH

See National language support for a list of supported language locales.