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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Editors
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 25, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Advanced Auto-Formatting Options for COBOL Editor

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

We'd like to have more options to influence the syntax-formatter in COBOL editor.

At the moment there are few options for intention on IF oder WHEN etc...

I wish some more options:

1) Intention for WHEN relative to EVALUATE
2) Intention for the text after IF (e.g. more than 1 space)
3) Independent Intention options for continued conditions (after line break) at WHEN/IF or Cobol Code after WHEN / IF
4) Position of an OR / AND in a WHEN or IF clause:
- 4.1) Intention of OR/AND relativ to WHEN or IF
- 4.2) As OR / AND are not the same length (2 vs. 3), it's necessary to be able to define their intention independent of each other
- 4.3) OR/AND at the end of the current or the beginning of the next line within the condition
- 4.4) Logical intention for complex / nested conditions honoring the brackets
5) intention on USING parms at CALL statements
6) forced line breaks and intention regarding the keywords on perform statements (e.g. the text after VARYING and UNTIL shall be on at the same column)
7) Force special end of a section / paragraph (as free format text), sample:
-- new line and "EXIT."
-- new line and "CONTINUE."
-- "."
-- End-X paragraph and exit.
etc..

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 28, 2020

    @Jesper: I completely support that!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 13, 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. We are accepting this request, however we need to further investigate which of the list of options requested we can deliver. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 12, 2020

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 27, 2020

    Would be nice to be able to specify the indentation of a multiline STRING clause aswell, eg;
    STRING
    "ABC"
    "123"
    DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO TEST-VAR
    END-STRING

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