By default, GT.M uses the current default directory of the parent process for the default directory of the initiated process.

DCL commands in the login files of the resultant process and the DEFAULT processparameter can modify the default. If the files specified by processparameters, except LOGFILE, do not exist, and GT.M does not have permission to create them, the JOBed process terminates. When the corresponding files are in the current default directory, the IMAGE, OUTPUT, INPUT, and ERROR processparameters do not require a full file-specification.

If the file-specification for LOGFILE does not contain a directory, GT.M defaults to the login directory of the parent process.

A detached JOB executes the LOGIN.COM in the login directory of the initiating process.