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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for System z
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Developer for System z
This request has been delivered in a previous RDz release.
A work around to this request has been implemented in RDz 7.6. See details below for that information. The final solution will need to come from File Manager. Opened FITS request on customer's behalf, FITS reference: MR1012095444.
Details to work around:
Implemented in 7.6 with a limitation by FM.
Here is the readme info...
Limitation: Creating templates with COBOL copybooks containing a COPY command with a REPLACING clause
When you create a template from a COBOL copybook, File Manager must compile the copybook as one step in the process of creating the template. When your COBOL copybook has a COPY command with a REPLACING clause, you might see a compile failure when attempting to create the template.
This compile failure is caused by, in most cases, File Manager inserting your COBOL copybook into a simple COBOL program using a COPY statement. The COPY command with a REPLACING clause in your copybook becomes nested in another COPY statement. Nested COPY commands with REPLACING clauses are illegal in COBOL, and the compile error results. However, when you specify a range in advanced copybook selection, the selected portion of the copybook is copied inline into the simple COBOL program, rather than being inserted using a COPY statement. Therefore, the COPY command with the REPLACING clause would not be nested and the compile would complete successfully.
To successfully create a template with a COBOL copybook containing a COPY command with a REPLACING clause:
1. Be sure to place the copybook and nested copybooks into the same PDS.
2. Choose "Advanced copybook template" in the Create Template" wizard.
3. Edit the copybook selection to specify a range (specifying a "From statement" of 1 and leaving the "To statement" blank selects the entire contents of the copybook).