Environment Variables

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Application may need some environment variables set. Obviously environment variables set by the starting shell can be read, but it is possible to force some environment to be defined and exported at xcics startup.

This feature applies to UNIX/Linux only. For Windows systems you have to set environments directly from system interfaces.

export

Using export directive it possible to define and export environments. The export directive cannot be specified into include files.

Syntax:

export VARIABLE=value