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Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
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Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2025

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Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

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Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK.

However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used as the program entry point instead. 

The syntax analyzer is expected to provide feedback to the developer that is useful to identify compilation errors in advance. The actual behavior of the analyzer is useless for that purpose when an ENTRY is in place for two reasons. First, the "unreachable code" message warns the developer about an issue that will not produce any error during compilation. Second, the whole ENTRY code (and worse than that, any paragraph invoked from the ENTRY) is totally underlined and full of yellow markers at the right margin of the editor. This makes it impossible to identify the real issues the program has and, thus, the analyzer is not effective.

Idea priority High

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