CONFIG.SYS - SET Statements (Additional software)

Used by additional software products

Additional IBM Products

Anti Virus

IBMAV

Is used by the IBM/Symantec Antivirus program.

SET IBMAV=Path

ICAT

Set Statements used by the ICAT debugger.

CAT_Communication_Type

Is used by the ICAT debugger.

SET Cat_Communication_Type=value 

CAT_Host_Bin_Path

Is used by the ICAT debugger. Defines the path to the debug binaries.

SET Cat_Host_Bin_Path=path

Parameters

Path can be any full path. If you have several path they must be delimited by a semicolon.

CAT_Host_Source_Path

Is used by the ICAT debugger. Tells the debugger where to find the sources.

SET Cat_Host_Source_Path=path

Parameters

Path can be any full path. If you have several path they must be delimited by a semicolon.

CAT_JAVA_ONLY

Is used by the ICAT debugger. Controls if you want to be able to debug native method dll code or not.

SET Cat_Java_Only=value

Parameters

Value can be ON or OFF.

If set to OFF or the variable is not set up you can debug native method dll code.

CAT_JVM_ARGS

Is used by the ICAT debugger.

SET CAT_JVM_ARGS=parameters

Parameters

Parameters can be any valid option for the JVM.

CAT_Machine

Is used by the ICAT debugger. This variable sets the ip address of the daemon's machine, and it sets the port number to communicate with the daemon.

SET Cat_Machine=value

Parameters

Value must be an ip address and a port number.

CAT_MODULE_LIST

Is used by the ICAT debugger.

SET Cat_Module_List=value

Parameters

Value can be any class file. If you have several files they must be delimited by a space.

CAT_Package_Path

Is used by the ICAT debugger.

SET Cat_Package_Path=

Parameters

Path can be any full path. If you have several path they must be =delimited by a semicolon.

CAT_PATH_RECURSE

Is used by the ICAT debugger. With this variable set the debugger will search recursive into the subdirectories.

SET Cat_Path_Recurse=value

Parameters

Value must be any non-null value to turn it on.

Java

• CLASSPATH - Java run-time classpath

JAVA_AUDIO_RATE

Controls the playback sample rate for Java audio.

SET JAVA_AUDIO_RATE=value

Parameters

Value can be 8 or 11 or maybe some other values, but I have no more information.

A value of 8 sets the playback rate to 8000 samples per second.

A value of 11 sets the playback rate to 11025 samples per second.

If this parameter is not set it defaults to 8.

JAVA_AUDIO_VOLUME

This environment variable controls the default audio volume for Java applications.

SET JAVA_AUDIO_VOLUME=percentage

Default settings

• SET JAVA_AUDIO_VOLUME=75

Parameters

Percentage can be in the range from 0 to 100. This value is expressed in percentage. If this parameter is not set it defaults to 75.

JAVA_CLOCK_RESOLUTION

The environment variable JAVA_CLOCK_RESOLUTION allows you to specify the timer resolution you require from the currentTimeMillis method in the Java.lang.System class.

SET Java_Clock_Resolution=value

Parameters

Value can be in the range from 1 to ?. This value is expressed in milliseconds. If this parameter is not set it defaults to 10.

The timer resolutions available are dependent on those provided by the OS/2 system. The Java system rounds down to the nearest available resolution. 1 millisecond is always available and is the highest resolution available. The default for JAVA_CLOCK_RESOLUTION is 10 milliseconds, and this is generally rounded to 1 millisecond accuracy. If you need to ensure that the best Java performance is obtained when using currentTimeMillis, SET Java_Clock_Resolution = 32. This can be important when running Java benchmarks.

JAVA_COMPILER

With this variable can you set up the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler that Java should use. If you want to disable the JIT than use a non-existing name, specify blanks for the name if you want to suppress the "Unable to load DLL" popup message. But it is not recommended to turn of the JIT, because this will decrease the speed of Java applications.

SET JAVA_COMPILER=name

Parameters

Name can be any JIT compiler. If this parameter is not set it defaults to JavaX.

JAVA_CONNECT_TIMEOUT

Adjusts the amount of time to wait for a network connection before reporting a timeout.

SET Java_Connect_Timeout=seconds

Default settings

• SET Java_Connect_Timeout=30

Parameters

Value can be in the range from 1 to . This value is expressed in seconds. If this parameter is not set it defaults to 30.

JAVA_CONSOLE

When SET specifies that Java programs executed using "Javapm" and "applet" will be run with a Java console.

SET Java_Console=value

Parameters:Value can be only 1. If this variable is not set, the console is not used.

JAVA_HIGH_MEMORY

Since Java 1.18, activates High Memory Support.

Example

SET JAVA_HIGH_MEMORY=1

NOTE: VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2048 needs also to be set, otherwise this setting will be ignored. TCP 4.1 or higher must be installed.

NOTE: Customers who have had an "Out of memory" or SYS0008 problems on systems using Java should add this line.

JAVA_HOME

This variable points to the root directory of your Java runtime.

SET Java_Home=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path with drive letter. There are no default settings.

JAVA_MAP_ACCEL

Specifies the accelerator character which Java should map to the OS/2 accelerator character for menu items and buttons.

SET Java_Map_Accel=value

Parameters

Value can be any character. To turn off the accelerator character mapping, specify a tilde(~). If this parameter is not set it defaults to amp.

JAVA_NLS_SBCS

Specifies that Java should run in single byte character set (SBCS) mode even in double byte character set (DBCS) environments.

SET JAVA_NLS_SBCS=value

Parameters

Value can be only 1. There are no default settings.

JAVA_NOPRINTDLG

When you set up this, Java will dismiss the printer properties dialog before printing.

SET JAVA_NOPRINTDLG=value

Parameters

Value can be only 1. If this variable is not set up in your CONFIG.SYS file, Java will show the printer properties dialog everytime you print from a Java application.

JAVA_OLD_CHAR_SPACING

The character spacing in strings which use characters from different codepages has been improved in the Java-Version "JDK 1.1.7A IBM build o117-19990506". It is possible that this will adversely affect the display and printing of some character strings in existing applications. The old spacing can be retained by setting this environment variable to ON.

SET JAVA_OLD_CHAR_SPACING=value

Parameter

Value can be ON or OFF. If you want to use the old spacing than use SET Java_OLD_CHAR_SPACING=ON.

JAVA_USER

The JAVA_USER variable points to the user specific directory. This directory should contain user specific configurations and settings. It is the same as the "Home" variable on other Java platforms.

SET JAVA_USER=path

Parameters

Path can be any full path with drive letter. There are no default settings.

JAVA_WEBLOGS

This variable will set the path to the directory into which the Java runtime will write weblog files for each started Java process.

SET Java_Weblogs=Path

Parameters

Path can be any full path with drive letter. If this parameter is not set it defaults to the Weblogs directory under the Java directory.

Lotus SmartSuite

Dssdir

Is used by the Lotus SmartSuite.

SET DssDir=Path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

DssPath

Is used by the Lotus Smartsuite.

SET DssPath=Path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

PSF/2

AINCODEPATH

Setting by IBM Print Services Facility for OS/2.

SET AINCODEPATH=

AINLANGUAGE

Setting by IBM Print Services Facility for OS/2.

SET AINLANGUAGE=ENU

AINUPTIMER

Setting by IBM Print Services Facility for OS/2.

SET AINUPTIMER=1

AINWORKPATH

Setting by IBM Print Services Facility for OS/2.

SET AINWORKPATH

IBM Software Installer

EpfInstDir

This points to the directory in which the IBM installer stores information about the installed programs.

SET Epfinstdir=E:\OS2\Config

IBM VisualAge C++

The following Set Statements are used in IBM Visualage for C++.

CodeLPath

Is used by the IBM VisualAge for C++.

SET CodeLPath=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path. If you have several path they must be delimited by a semicolon.

CppHelp_Ini

SET CppHelp_Ini=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

CppLocal

SET CppLocal=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

CppMain

SET CppMain=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

CppWork

SET CppWork=path

Html_DbcsNetq

This is used by the NetQuestion Help system in IBM VisualAge for C++ 4.0 and IBM VisualAge for Java.

SET Html_DbcsNetq=Value

Parameters:

Value can be ON or OFF.

Imn...

Set Statements used by NetQuestion, Help system in IBM VisualAge for C++ 4.0 and IBM VisualAge for Java.

ImnCcCfgFile

SET ImnCcCfgFile=Netq.cfg

ImnCsCfgFile

SET ImnCsCfgFile=Netq.cfg

ImnDataCl

SET ImnDataCl=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

ImnDataSrv

SET ImnDataSrv=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

ImnNlpsCl

SET ImnNlpsCl=path

Parameters: Path can be any full path.

ImnNlpsSrv

SET ImnNlpsSrv=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

ImnWorkCl

SET ImnWorkCl=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

ImnWorkSrv

SET ImnWorkSrv=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

Imq...

Set statements used by the NetQuestion, Help system in IBM Visualage for C++ 4.0 and IBM VisualAge for Java.

ImqConfigCl

SET ImqConfigCl=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

ImqConfigSrv

SET ImnConfigSrv=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

IBM WorkFrame

Set statements used by the IBM VisualAge for C++ and other products.

Iwf.Default_Prj

SET Iwf.Default_Prj=Cppdftprj 

Iwf.Solution_Language_Support

SET Iwf.Solution_Language_Support=Cppibs30;ENG

IwfHelp

SET IwfHelp=Iwfhdi.inf

IwfOpt

SET IwfOpt=

Lite_Locales

This is used by the NetQuestion Help system in IBM VisualAge for C++ 4.0 and IBM VisualAge for Java.

SET LiteLocales=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

LPath

This is used by the IBM VisualAge for C++ Compiler.

SET LPath=path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

Lxevfref

This is used by the IBM VisualAge for C++ Compiler. Defines which files should be shown in the Editor Reference Guide.

SET Lxevref=Evfelref.inf+Lpxcref.inf 

Lxevfhdi

This is used by the IBM VisualAge for C++ Compiler. Defines which files should be shown in the Editor HowTos.

SET Lxevfhdi=Evfelhdi.inf+Lpexhdi.inf

VACPP_Shared

This line is used by the IBM VisualAge C++ Compiler.

SET VACPP_Shared=False

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VBPATH

This line is used by the IBM VisualAge C++ Visual Builder.

SET VBPATH=Path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path. If you have several paths they must be delimited by a semicolon.

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Third Party

AMD for IMDB

Setting for a database_application. It is an 'os2-browser' for IMDB (internet movie database), a very wellknown project for movie enthusiasts. Developed by Steffen Siebert (siebert@logware.de)

AMD_LISTS_PATH

SET AMD_LISTS_PATH=

AMD_PATH

SET AMD_PATH=

AWK and gawk

AWK

SET AWK=

Sets the path to the AWK executable (note the use of slashes (/))

AWKPATH

SET AWK=<path>

Sets the searchpath for AWK (note the use of slashes (/))

BackAgain/2

BA2_CATALOG_PATH

SET BA2_CATALOG_PATH=x:\path

Environment variable used by Back Again/2

BA2_LOG_PATH

SET BA2_LOG_PATH=x:\path

Environment variable used by Back Again/2

BA2_SCSI_LOGFILE

SET BA2_SCSI_LOGFILE=x:\SCSILOG.TXT

This will create with BackAgain/2 a logfile of scsi-related messages. Good for testing errors.

BA2_SET_PATH

Environment variable used by Back Again/2

BRIEF

BBACKUP

Used to set the location for backup files created by the BRIEF programmer's editor.

SET BBACKUP

Changi

The following Set Statements are used by the Newsserver Changi.

ChangiAutoFlush

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiAutoFlush=value

Parameters:

ChangiHistory

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiHistory=<path>

Parameters:

ChangiHostName

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiHostName=value

Parameters:

ChangiLocalHost

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiLocalHost=value

Parameters:

ChangiNewsDir

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiNewsDir=Path

Parameters:

ChangiNodeName

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiNodeName=value

Parameters:

ChangiOverDir

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiOverDir=Path

Parameters:

ChangiPathHost

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiPathHost=value

Parameters:

ChangiWorkDir

This is used by the Newsserver Changi.

SET ChangiWorkDir=Path

Parameters:

Communigate Pro

APPLICATION

Usually set from Communigate Pro's Startup.CMD, this points to the Communigate Pro program directory.

SET APPLICATION=Path

Parameters:

Path should be the full path to the location of CGServer.exe (without the trailing backslash).

BASEDIRECTORY

Usually set from Communigate Pro's Startup.CMD, this points to the Communigate Pro data directory.

SET BASEDIRECTORY=Path

Parameters:

Path should be the full path to the parent directory containing Accounts, Domains, BadFiles, Queue, Settings, etc. (without the trailing backslash).

SUPPLPARAMS

Usually set from Communigate Pro's Startup.CMD, this includes one or more parameters to be passed to CGServer.exe at startup.

SET SUPPLPARAMS=--<parameter 1> <option> --<parameter 2> <option> etc.

Parameters:

Parameters should be preceded by double dashes (i.e., entered just as they would be on the command line). Where a parameter requires an option, use a whitespace to separate the parameter from the option. If multiple parameters are required, separate them with a whitespace and precede the next parameter with double dashes.

DCF/2

These are the environment variables used by the DCF/2 disk compression program.

DCF2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Kb_Free

SET Dcf2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Kb_Free=1024

DCF2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Level

SET Dcf2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Level=0 

DCF2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Mins

SET Dcf2_Acp_Auto_Optimize_Mins=60 

DCF2_Acp_Cache_Blocks

SET DCF2_Acp_Cache_Blocks=128 

DCF2_Acp_Compression_Level

SET Dcf2_Acp_Compression_Level=2

DCF2_Acp_Debug

SET Dcf2_Acp_Debug=3 

DCF2_Acp_Foreground_Compress_Rate

SET Dcf2_Acp_Foreground_Compress_Rate=5

DCF2_Acp_Logng

SET Dcf2_Acp_Logng=3 

DCF2_Acp_Maxage_Secs

SET Dcf2_Acp_Maxage_Secs=5

DCF2_Acp_No_Clean_And_Close

SET Dcf2_Acp_No_Clean_And_Close=TRUE 

DCF2_Acp_Out_Of_Space_Suspend

SET Dcf2_Acp_Out_Of_Space_Suspend=512

DCF2_Acp_Out_Of_Space_Warning

SET Dcf2_Acp_Out_Of_Space_Warning=3072

DCF2_Acp_Priority

SET Dcf2_Acp_Priority=2 

DCF2_Acp_Priority_Delta

SET Dcf2_Acp_Priority_Delta=2 

DCF2_Pdd_Wait

SET Dcf2_Acp_Pdd_Wait=0

DCF2_Vdu_G

SET Dcf2_Vdu_G=file

EMX Environment

AC_PREFIX

Sets the install directory for GNU autconf.

SET AC_PREFIX=

ADA_INCLUDE_PATH

Variable for GNAT the Ada95 Compiler from GNU GCC

SET ADA_INCLUDE_PATH=

ADA_OBJECTS_PATH

Variable for GNAT the Ada95 Compiler for gcc

SET ADA_OBJECTS_PATH=

C_Include_Path

Points to the path where the EMX gcc C compiler searches for include files.

SET C_Include_Path=Path

Parameters

Path can be any full path. If you have several path they must be delimited by a semicolon.

Note: You must use the UNIX-like forwardslashes instead of the backslashes. See the example below:

SET C_Include_Path=c:/emx/include

Gpf

GPFREXX

Points to the directory where GPFRexx is installed.

SET GPFREXX=C:\User\Rexx\Gpfrexx

GPFREXXBITMAP

Points to the directory where GPFRexx stores the bitmap files.

SET GPFREXXBITMAP=C:\User\Rexx\Gpfrexx\Bitmap

HomePage Publisher

HPP_Base

Points to the directory in which the HomePage Publisher is installed.

SET Hpp_base=C:\Hpp21

HPP_Options

Used by the Home Page Publisher to define a default backgroundimage for new html files.

SET Hpp_Options=C:\Hpp21\Images\Background.jpg

Inet.Mail

This is used by the POP3 and SMTP Mailserver Inet.Mail.

AutoReply

SET AutoReply=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path.

Steward_Cf

SET Steward_Cf=Path

Parameters

Path can be any full path.

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Lucide Document Viewer

LUCIDEINSTALLPATH

Used to point to the location of the Lucide executable, help, and supporting files. This was introduced in Lucide version 1.4.0. It is normally set during install.

SET LUCIDEINSTALLPATH=Path

Parameters:

Path can be any full path.

Mozilla

These are the SET Statements for Mozilla applications.

MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH

This statement is to separate the locations of the plugins for Firefox.

SET MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=<path>

MOZILLA_HOME

This statement is to separate the locations of the user profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird.

SET MOZILLA_HOME=<path>

Parameters: Full path of the location of the profile.

MOZ_NO_REMOTE

Allows to run two instances of Firefox or Thunderbird simultaneously.

SET MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

Parameters:

MOZILLA_USE_EXTENDED_FT2LIB

Enables special functions in Firefox and Thuderbird to handle Unicode characters, if you have Innotek Font Engine installed.

SET MOZILLA_USE_EXTENDED_FT2LIB=T

Parameters:

PMAs

PMAS_Ini

This is used by the astronomy program PMAS. Defines the Path where PMAS stores its config files.

SET Pmas_Ini=Path

Parameters:

• Value can be any full path.
• Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMAS_Nls

SET Pmas_Nls=Path

Parameters:

• Value can be any full path.
• Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASkom_Data

SET Pmaskom_Data=file

Parameters

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASmipl_Data

SET Pmasmipl_Data=file

Parameters

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASpla_Dll

SET Pmaspla_Dll=value

Parameters

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASgraf_Gap

SET Pmasgraf_Gap=Path

Parameters

Value can be any full path. Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASgraf_Gb

SET Pmasgraf_Gb=Path

Parameters

Value can be any full path. If you have severall paths they must be delimited by a semicolon. Relative paths are not allowed.

PMASD118_Data

SET PMASD118_Data=file

Parameters

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

SIBYL_REG

This line is used by the Speedsoft Sibyl Pascal compiler to store the registration key.

SET Sibyl_Reg=<path>

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Spellguard

This are the Set Statements for Pronews.

Sg_Dict_Path

Defines a directory in which ProNews search for the Spellguard dictionary.

SET Sg_Dict_Path=C:\Pronews\Spell 

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Sg_User_Path

Defines a directory in which Pronews search for the Spellguard user-dictionary.

SET Sg_User_Path=C:\Pronews\Spell 

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VisPro

VISPROC

Used by Vispro C. Points to the directory where Vispro C is installed.

SET VISPROC=Path

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VISPRORX

Used by Vispro Rexx. Points to the directory where Vispro Rexx is installed.

SET VISPRORX=Path

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Virtual Pascal

VPBASE

Points to the directory where Virtual Pascal is installed.

SET VPBASE=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VPHELP

Defines the directory where the Virtual Pascal help files are stored.

SET VPHELP=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VPLIB

Points to the Virtual Pascal Library files.

SET VPLIB=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

VPOUT

Used by Virtual Pascal. Defines the directory where the compiled projects should be written to.

SET VPOUTt=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

Watcom

EDpath

Is used by the Watcom C/C++ editor.

SET EDPath=path

Parameters

Path can be any full path.

VXREXX

Used by Watcom VX-REXX. Points to the directory where VX-Rexx is installed.

SET VXREXX=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

WATCOM

This line is used by the Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 77 and defines the directory where it is installed.

SET WATCOM=<path>

Parameters

Path can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

XFree86/2

DISPLAY

Needed by XFree86/OS2. Tells the X server were to display the output.

Normally this should be your own monitor, but it is possible to use an other computer for the output.

SET Display=Hostname:displaynumber.screennumber

Parameters

• Hostname - The Hostname is the name or IP address of the computer for the display. If you want to use your own PC then set it to the same name as defined in the SET HostName variable.
• displaynumber - Use 0 for the first local display.
• screennumber -Use 0 for the first local screen.

X11Root

Needed by XFree86/OS2. Points to the directory in which the \XFree86 directory is installed.

SET X11Root=E:

If you have installed XFree86/OS2 in the directory "D:\user\emx\Xfree86" then set up X11Root to "D:/user/emx"

note: You must use a Unix like forward-slash as a directory separator!

Value can be any full path . Relative paths are not allowed.

X11SHELL

Needed by XFree86/2. Defines the shell to be used within XFree86/2, if you want to use the standard Cmd.exe this line is not necessary.

SET X11SHELL=E:\user\emx\XFree86\ 

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

XSERVER

Needed by XFree86/OS2. Defines the X server to be used. You must choose the right server for your graphics adapter card.

SET XSERVER=X:/USER/EMS/XFREE86/BIN/XF86_SVGA.exe

Parameters:

note: You must use a Unix like forward-slash as a directory separator!

Possible X Servers are:

• XF86_Mono.exe
• XF86_SVGA.exe
• XF86_VG16.exe
• XF86_8514.exe
• XF86_AGX.exe
• XF86_Glnt.exe
• XF86_I128.exe
• XF86_Ma8.exe
• XF86_Ma32.exe
• XF86_Ma64.exe
• XF86_P9k.exe
• XF86_S3.exe
• XF86_S3V.exe
• XF86_W32.exe

Value can be any full path. Relative paths are not allowed.

XTEL

This parameters was found on XTEL software configurations (version 5.6 (MINI X-TEL) and 6.0). This software is for PLC usage.

SET XPROSYS=X:\XPROSYS
SET XPROHELP=X:\XPROSYS\HLP
SET QH=X:\XPROSYS\HLP
SET XPROUSR=X:\XPROSYS
SET XPROMOD=X:\XPROSYS
IOPL=YES