Accessing MUF details from COBOL programs

Products

• Datacom
• Datacom/AD
• Datacom/DB

Issue/Introduction

This article will provide a COBOL program to retrieve system-dependent information from a Datacom/DB MUF, such as a version release level, a MUF or Single User indicator, and much more.

Environment

Datacom/DB

Datacom/AD

Resolution

Attached to this article is a program using IBM Enterprise COBOL to retrieve the MUF details using both the INQIN programming command as well as the Datacom Dynamic System Table called MUF_IDENTITY. It will produce a report showing the details available.

Here is a sample of the report output:

Additional Information

For further details, please refer to the INQIN programming command and to the MUF_IDENTITY Dynamic System Table.

As always, please contact Broadcom support for Datacom if you have further questions.