The OPTOVER control option allows you to keep developers from overriding project-defined translator options. If you specify Y, developers can override the translator options for any of the languages by using the PARM statement in the architecture members. For more details on specifying translator options in architecture members, see Architecture definition.

If you specify N, SCLM uses only translator options you specify in the language definition for the translators. Specifying N also overrides the OPTFLAG parameter, which allows option override by the translator. The default for the OPTOVER control option is Y. In the example project definition Figure 1, the OPTOVER option defaults to Y.