diff --git a/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh b/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
index 8ea31c2d2e51b4b0b8c3a081efa059141b5b29d0..845f15e992ecdef9da27f99704be9cae15eb1564 100755
--- a/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
+++ b/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 #
 # all ACC processes expect to be started with "ACC" as first parameter
 
+JOBNAME=$1
+
 . /opt/lofar/etc/BlueGeneControl.conf
 
 # Select the newest parset in the list. Multiple file names are supported
@@ -30,5 +32,10 @@ done
 sed -i 's/.*OLAP.CNProc.integrationSteps.*//' $PARSET
 sed -i 's/.*OLAP.IONProc.integrationSteps.*//' $PARSET
 
+(
+echo "OLAP.IONProc.PLC_ProcID = $JOBNAME"
+echo "OLAP.IONProc.PLC_controlled = T"
+) >> $PARSET
+
 # Inject the parset into the correlator
 $BINPATH/runParset.py -P $PARTITION parset=$PARSET >>/opt/lofar/log/run.runParset.py.log 2>&1 &
diff --git a/RTCP/Interface/include/Interface/Parset.h b/RTCP/Interface/include/Interface/Parset.h
index 11ff6120f38ae2eddc87941f36dd1bda3e244ee1..fa533e6f4f255d4ac053ae9b72e66f82a0706631 100644
--- a/RTCP/Interface/include/Interface/Parset.h
+++ b/RTCP/Interface/include/Interface/Parset.h
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ public:
         string         constructSubbandFilename( const string &mask, unsigned subband ) const;
         string         constructBeamFormedFilename( const string &mask, unsigned beam, unsigned stokes, unsigned file ) const;
 
+        bool            PLC_controlled() const;
+        string          PLC_ProcID() const;
+        string          PLC_Host() const;
+        uint32          PLC_Port() const;
+
 private:
 	const std::string itsName;
 
@@ -726,6 +731,31 @@ inline string Parset::targetHost(const string &prefix, const string &filename) c
   return "";  
 }
 
+inline bool Parset::PLC_controlled() const
+{
+  return getBool("OLAP.IONProc.PLC_controlled",false);
+}
+
+inline string Parset::PLC_ApplID() const
+{
+  return getString("ApplCtrl.application","CorrAppl");
+}
+
+inline string Parset::PLC_ProcID() const
+{
+  return getString("OLAP.IONProc.PLC_ProcID","CorrProc");
+}
+
+inline string Parset::PLC_Host() const
+{
+  return getString(str(format("%s.%s._ACnode") % PLC_ApplID() % PLC_ProcID()));
+}
+
+inline uint32 Parset::PLC_Port() const
+{
+  return getUint32(str(format("%s.%s._ACport") % PLC_ApplID() % PLC_ProcID()));
+}
+
 } // namespace RTCP
 } // namespace LOFAR