Restrictions When Working With Standalone COBOL Files

Most editing, compiling and debugging features within the IDE require that your files are part of a project. When working with standalone files, some of the features are not available or are not fully supported.

Support for editing, compiling and debugging of standalone files is only available for native COBOL programs.

The following features and technologies are not supported:

Automatic compile when saving the file.
You need to recompile the file manually.
Linking programs to .exe or .dll files.
Compiling standalone files only produces an .int or a .gnt file.
Pre- or post-build events.
Breakpoints, Program breakpoints and Watchpoints are not preserved when you close the file.
To open a copybook referenced from a standalone file, they must be stored in the directory that contains the standalone file, or in a directory specified by COPYPATH.
Compiling to managed COBOL
Compiling of Assembler, PL/I programs or other Mainframe Subsystem Support programs (CICS, JCL or IMS).