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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Editors
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

PLI Editor - "Color Highlightning" for Conditional and Looping Statements

Our Developers would like to have different colour codes within the PL/I-Editor for Code Nesting. This feature should work WITHOUT using the pre-processor!

Let´s take the following example:

DO K = 1 TO 10;
SELECT (AVALUE);
WHEN (‘0')
IF BVALUE = CVALUE
THEN
DVALUE=EVALUE;
END;
WHEN (‘1')
WHEN (‘2')
OTHERWISE
END;
END;

In this example we would like to have a different font-color for DO, SELECT and IF blocks – so the developer can easily find out which END belongs to which block.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 12, 2020

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. At this time, your request for enhancement is not currently aligned with our product strategy and vision and we have no plans to address your request in the near future. Again, thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 18, 2020

    We implemented RDz/IDz years ago. We never used LPEX and developers was logged out of TSO edit.
    After a very short while everybody got used to the editor and today won't live without.
    If you place the cursor on a DO the corresponding END will be highlighted. It is a matter of writing well formatted code with correct indentation. Same could be said for ( and ) - no coloring but only highlighting.
    This has been a request for many years at GSE. Maybe it is due to the Eclipse-platform.
    Anyway you can live without but it would be a great feature.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2020

    You can select an END; by double clicking on it and it should show you which block IF, SELECT, DO, etc that it is associated with by highlighting the associated terms.

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