Created On:  16 March 2011

Problem:

When animating a COBOL program and you want to accept command line parameter which contains either quota marks (“) or backslashes (\\) in the text:

cobrun test-program “test” or \\test\\ and the quota marks or backslash are not accept in the COBOL program.

Resolution:

You should invoke animator using the following command line. Notice animator is invoked via COBSW= A:

CMDLINE="text containing \\" character"
COBSW= A; cobrun test-program ${CMDLINE}
Incident #2425830