Most editing, compiling and debugging features within the IDE require that your files are part of a project. When working with single files, some of the features are not available or are not fully supported.
Support for single files, such that are opened in the IDE without a project, is only available for native COBOL programs.
The following lists some of the features and technologies that are not available or are not fully supported:
Automatic compile when saving the file.
You need to recompile the file manually.
Compiling single files only produces an .int or a .gnt file.
To open a copybook referenced from a single file, they must be stored in the directory that contains the single file, or in a directory specified by COPYPATH.
If you have made changes the file, you need to recompile it in order for the IDE to verify the code and show any errors in the
Problems view.
Compiling managed code.
Compiling of Assembler or PL/I programs or such that include Mainframe Subsystem Support (CICS, JCL or IMS).
