INITPARM
The INITPARM system initialization parameter specifies parameters that are to be passed to application programs that use the ASSIGN INITPARM command.
- INITPARM=(pgmname_1='parmstring_1'[, .... ,pgmname_n='parmstring_n'])
- You can use INITPARM to pass parameters to PLTPI programs to be executed in
the final stages of system initialization. The area giving access to the parameters is specified by
the ASSIGN INITPARM command. For programming information about the
ASSIGN INITPARM command, see ASSIGN.
- pgmname
- The name of a program. This name must be 1 through 8 alphanumeric or national language characters.
- parmstring
- The parameter string (up to 60 characters enclosed by single quotes) to be passed to the associated program. Any quotes imbedded in the string must be duplicated. For information on coding INITPARM in the SYSIN data set, see Rules for coding CICS system initialization parameters in the SYSIN data set.
You can specify up to 255 pgmname='parmstring' sets.
Note: In SYSIN, you can specify the INITPARM keyword and its parameters more
than once, see A sample CICS startup job. If you specify INITPARM
multiple times for the same program, the final INITPARM parameter specified is
the parameter that the system uses. If you specify INITPARM multiple times for
different programs, the INITPARM parameters specified are merged.