Enabling man pages

Man pages are provided for the compiler invocation commands and utilities (e.g. scu and gdgmgr). Man pages are provided in English only.

Before you can view the COBOL for Linux® on x86 utility man pages, you must add the man page directory to the MANPATH environment variable.

If you have installed COBOL for Linux on x86 in the default location, enter the following command to update the MANPATH environment variable.
export 
MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/ibm/cobol/1.2.0/man:/opt/ibm/cobol/rte/man 
If you have installed COBOL for Linux on x86 in a nondefault location, enter the following command to update the MANPATH environment variable.
export 
MANPATH=$MANPATH:installation_path/cobol/1.2.0/man:/opt/ibm/cobol/rte/man 
where installation_path is the target directory specified by the --prefix option of the nondefault installation command on RHEL or SLES, or the /opt/ibm directory under the root directory of chroot on Ubuntu.

To test whether the man pages have been successfully installed, open one or more of the man pages, as described in Viewing the man pages.