This Natural profile parameter controls whether current user global data area (GDA) and application-independent variables (AIV) are to be reset or not when a utility is invoked in utility mode (see Utility Activation in the Utilities documentation), that is, by using the direct command that corresponds to the utility's name.
| Possible settings | ON |
The current user GDA and AIV variables are reset before a utility
is started. This behavior corresponds to the previous situation when the
utility was invoked using the system command LOGON
<library>.
|
|---|---|---|
OFF |
The current user GDA and AIV variables are preserved when a utility is started. Note that this will increase the data size correspondingly and may lead to thread problems under certain operating systems. | |
| Default setting | ON |
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| Dynamic specification | yes | |
| Specification within session | no |
