Profile Tokens

The Build Tool provides settings to tailor application builds to your specifications in the form of tokens consisting of a key and a value assigned to the key. Tokens are used by the build scripts and substituted with the value assigned when the .MAK file is generated at build time.

You can edit the value of any defined token record (for example, OPT.DBUSER) to use a customer-supplied value (for example, USERID).

Note: You can use environment variables as token values. Environment variables must be formatted as appropriate for their target system.

For example, the following variable can be used for Windows:

%MY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE%

The following variable can be used for UNIX, Linux, and NonStop:

$MY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE

The environment variable is evaluated by the Build Tool when the token is processed.

You can take advantage of many profile tokens. The following sections list groupings of token as they are listed in the Profile Manager. Additional information is provided to describe the sets of tokens that may be applicable to your particular application needs.