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Problem:

It can be interesting to dynamically set,  for test purposes or whatever, a COMMAND-LINE within a program....

How to do it?

Resolution:

The sample code pasted below show how to:

       working-storage section.

       01 CMDline   pic x(100).

       01 CMDline1  pic x(100).

       procedure division.

           move "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 " to      CMDline

           display CMDline  upon command-line

           accept  CMDline1 from command-line

           display "CMDLINE received " CMDline1

Old KB# 3846