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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories VSCODE
Created by Guest
Created on May 4, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Empty <PROGRAM> tag in VS Code remote preprocessor XML when editing remote dataset members

When Z Open Editor invokes a remote preprocessor script (e.g. FEKRNPLI) via RSE while editing a remote dataset member, the tag in the XML written to the temp dataset is empty.   The preprocessor REXX has no way to identify the input source member to pass to the compiler, making remote preprocessing non-functional.  This issue occurs when the remote dataset does not contain COBOL, CBL, PLI or PL1 in its name as mentioned in the documentation. 

https://ibm.github.io/zopeneditor-about/Docs/tutorial_preprocessor.html#local-preprocessor-examples

This request for enhancement is to allow other dataset names to be used aside from the documented ones.  Sometimes datasets contain a mix of different source code types such as COBOL, PL1, and Assembler which makes naming the dataset with one of the documented names problematic.   The language detection capabilities in z Open Editor does correctly identify the source code type in the mixed source dataset, so the remote preprocessing tooling should be able to use this information and populate the <PROGRAM> tag correctly.  

More details can be found in github issue below:

https://github.com/IBM/zopeneditor-about/issues/596

Idea priority Medium

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