Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Real-time syntax checking of COBOL files

The System z LPEX Editor automatically validates the syntax of COBOL code and embedded CICS and SQL statements.

The editor performs real-time syntax checking and provides annotations describing the errors. If an error is found, an error icon (exclamation mark in yellow triangle) is displayed. To see an annotation describing the error, hover your mouse over the icon.

To turn off real-time syntax checking, select Disable editor annotations and tools on the COBOL LPEX Editor preference page. To turn off SQL annotations, deselect the check box Enable SQL syntax annotations in EXEC SQL statements.

The COBOL LPEX Editor checks for the following kinds of errors:


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