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BIND

Specifies the name of the bind file to be created. When BIND is specified without a parameter, the bind file defaults to the program name with the filename extension replaced by .BND, and is created in the current source directory.

Bind files can be written to a specific directory other than the current source directory or a directory specified by the BIND directive. To do this, you set the HCOBND environment variable. For example:

HCOBND=/mydir/binds
export HCOBND

The directory you specify in the HCOBND environment variable applies to all bind files created by Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX until you unset the environment variable or specify a specific build setting for a program using the DB2 bind directive. For example:

db2(bind=/mybinds/test.bnd)

would cause the HCOBND environment variable setting to be ignored.

Syntax:

BIND=bindfile
BIND
NOBIND

Properties:

Default:	NOBIND
Synonym:	BINDFILE.