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Categories Editors
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 4, 2019

Cobol Formatter should Align "TO" Clauses

Cobol Developers spend lot of time and love by manuelly align all TO Statements within their sections.
In our Opinion this Alginment improve the code quality enormously because variable names have often the same name and differs only by the prefixes.
You can read Cobol Programs with aligned TOs much faster.
An Example is attached.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 13, 2023
    This was delivered in IDz 16.0.1
  • Guest
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    Nov 26, 2019

    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. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

  • Guest
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    Nov 11, 2019

    when this comes, this feature MUST be optional

  • Guest
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    Nov 4, 2019

    Attachment (Description): Example of non-aligned an aligned Cobol Code.