# What is the use of set control \>\>\>\>

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-set-control/80247>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [February 23, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-set-control/80247 "2009-02-23T18:15:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Balaryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Balaryan](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Balaryan)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-set-control/80247/1 "2009-02-23T18:15:46Z")

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can any1 make me comfortable in Set control statement pls. ☹

What is the essence of using

SET CONTROL ‘WL40C15F’,  
set control ‘N’,  
set control ‘L’,  
SET CONTROL ‘Q’ ,  
SET CONTROL ‘CCCL01A’  
set control ‘XXXXXXXX’ (where XXXXXXXX means some content)

What this exactly means and it do have any pre-defined set of rules ?

please make me clear by providing me appropiate examples…

can any1 give me the complete possibilities of this stmt.

Advance thanks… 😃

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-set-control/80247/2 "2009-02-23T18:44:33Z")

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This is answered at the Inside Natural thread.

You should only post questions in one place.

steve

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/what-is-the-use-of-set-control/80247/3 "2021-04-02T14:51:32Z")

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